From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 04:19:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] shared repository settings enhancement.
Message-ID: <7vver9k5gg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606092103170.5498@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> How about making it be
>
> 	[core]
> 		sharedrepository = {umask | user | group | everybody}
>
> and allow the old boolean expression syntax to mean "0/false means umask, 
> 1/true means group".
>
> So you'd have:
>
>  - umask/0/false means "use 0777 permissions with default umask"
>  - user means "use 0500 permissions"
>  - group means "use 0550 permissions"
>  - everybody means "use 0555 permissions"
>
> (where "5" is r-x, and only for directories, and obviously degenerates to 
> just "4" aka r-- for regular files).
>
> That sounds really pretty self-explanatory and obvious, wouldn't you say?

Yes, the user can mistype "gruop", people would start making
noises about having "world" as a synonym for "everybody", and
the parsing becomes somewhat cumbersome, and all that trouble,
but on the other hand that is probably the easiest to explain.