Re: git /objects directory created 755 by default?

From: Ben Clifford <benc@hawaga.org.uk>
Date: Dec 22, 2005, 03:46 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.OSX.4.64.0512221248260.6087@piva.local>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90512202115o652d8e00v86182302513d1319@mail.gmail.com>

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> Could git-shell also be used by a SourceForge-like project, offering
> per-developer git repositories? If they are using the (BSDish?)
> convention of not having a group per user this could backfire.
>
> Does any unix these days _not_ use a group per user?

At least two reasonably sized shops that I have worked with previously do not have group-per-user (and I think two others but I cannot remember about those) - they have centrally administered user accounts and just have groups like 'i am in department X', or 'I am allowed to write into $SOMEPROJECT cvs'.

But that's not a per-unix decision, its a per-organisation administrative decision.

In any case, their usage of groups wrt shared CVS would not have a problem with a 77x mask, though there might be problems (I haven't thought about it enough) with the setgid(?) bit on directories - we used to hit this occasionally in CVS when a directory would end up being created with a user's primary group rather than the 'I am allowed to write into CVS' group. There is too much wine in me at the moment to work out if its also a problem for git...