From: Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 15:15:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Permissions of objects within shared repo
Message-ID: <799406d60905010815h634638f6hf5aa0f149f627607@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0905011500530.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

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:

> 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