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Re: Permissions of objects within shared repo

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Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com>
Date
May 1, 2009, 15:15 UTC
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<799406d60905010815h634638f6hf5aa0f149f627607@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 08:01, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

> Objects are immutable.  So they do not need to be writable at all.
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 08:58, Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> wrote:
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> On POSIX filesystems it's the _directory_ permissions which control whether
> or not the directory contents can be deleted.
>
> Do:
>
>   ls -ld /path/to/repo.git/objects/00/
>
> and you should see that the group has write permission to this directory
> which will allow group members to delete files residing in the directory.
Of course, thanks! Sorry for the noise.
Cheers
Adam
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