Re: git-push through git protocol

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Jan 22, 2007, 03:01 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701211858340.14248@woody.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90701211826v54340352lf4376db41ad5be37@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Martin Langhoff wrote:

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> On 1/22/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> > Umm. Your git daemon is probably running as "nobody", and simply doesn't
> > have write permissions to the archive, does it?
> > 
> > > % cat /etc/xinet.d/git-daemon
> > > service git
> > > {
> > >         user            = nobody
> > 
> > iow, I think you simply need to make sure that git-daemon will have write
> > permission to the thing. Either by making the whole repository writable by
> > nobody, or by running git-daemon as the proper user.
> 
> Whereby I personaly run back quickly to cover under my git-over-ssh
> safety blanket.

Sure.

I suspect that git-daemon is possibly easier and faster to set up in the kind of situation where you set up git instead of CVS inside a company, though.

In that situation, you could just say: "machine X is the central CVS repository, and now it also contains a set of git repositories, all owned by nobody:nobody".

That way, you basically get the exact same situation as you had with CVS, with minimal setup.

If the alternative is some NFS thing, I'd take that writing git-daemon over shared NFS-access from everybody any day..

		Linus