From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:06:05 GMT
Subject: Re: running "git init --shared" on an existing repo
Message-ID: <7v8w9kq1ia.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <2e24e5b91003212330r2f3fd118y18386ef61c28ee89@mail.gmail.com>

Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com> writes:

> And it seems there was a beginning made.  builtin/init-db.c at line 220 says:
>
>             /*
>              * We would have created the above under user's umask -- under
>              * shared-repository settings, we would need to fix them up.
>              */

That "the above" refers to "in this process that created the repository
directory and populated it halfway by calling copy_templates()", and never
"some time ago by some other process that created the repository, in which
this process is now being run", so it is not fair to say "a beginning".

You would need to run "find $GIT_DIR -print0 | xargs -0 chown/mod ..." or
a moral equivalent of it, I guess.  Shouldn't be a rocket surgery ;-)