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Re: [PATCH] Fix backwards-incompatible handling of core.sharedRepository

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 10, 2008, 23:39 UTC
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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> The 06cbe8550324e0fd2290839bf3b9a92aa53b70ab core.sharedRepository
> handling extension broke backwards compatibility; before, shared=1 meant
> that Git merely ensured the repository is group-writable, not that it's
> _only_ group-writable, which is the current behaviour.

Donn't our existing tests catch this, and if the answer is no because we don't have any, could you add some?

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>  path.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
>
> diff --git a/path.c b/path.c
> index 5983255..75c5915 100644
> --- a/path.c
> +++ b/path.c
> @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ int adjust_shared_perm(const char *path)
>  	mode = st.st_mode;
>  
>  	if (shared_repository) {
> -		int tweak = shared_repository;
> +		int tweak = (mode & 0777) | shared_repository;
>  		if (!(mode & S_IWUSR))
>  			tweak &= ~0222;
>  		mode = (mode & ~0777) | tweak;

I think this change is good. shared_repository has always been about widening the access and not about limiting.

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  4. Petr BaudisJul 11, 2008
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