From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:46:56 GMT
Subject: Re: sharedRepository derived from file permissions
Message-ID: <7vfw5dpmkv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1210170009180.2113@vega>

Mark Hills <mark@pogo.org.uk> writes:

>> > It looks like it might be easier (and less confusing to users) to derive 
>> > this attribute from the top-level .git directory?
>> 
>> Hrm, clever ;-)
>> 
>> > Is there a reason why Git doesn't just follow (and echo) the top-level 
>> > permissions?
>> 
>> Other than "we did not trust that all the end users are capable of
>> doing the right 'chmod 2775 .git && chgrp project .git", with a
>> little bit of "we didn't think of that when we wrote the system", I
>> do not recall any.
>
> Thanks. If I understand, you mean it might be worth a try to implement 
> this.

Not really.

I still do not think that all the end users are capable of doing the
right 'chmod 2775 .git && chgrp project .git' themselves.