From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 20:01:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Git-daemon messing up permissions for gitweb
Message-ID: <7vwtbqm73j.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606091201210.5498@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Post, Mark K wrote:
>>
>> As far as I can tell, the problem is happening because these files are
>> being written out with file permissions of 640, and since Apache is
>> running as user wwwrun, it can't read them:

> Or add
> 	[core]
> 		SharedRepository = true
>
> to the repository config file.

This is about being able to share among the group, not with
people outside, so if wwwrun is outside git group like Mark's
setting I do not think it would do anything helpful to the
situation.