From: Ben Clifford <benc@hawaga.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 03:46:16 GMT
Subject: Re: git /objects directory created 755 by default?
Message-ID: <Pine.OSX.4.64.0512221248260.6087@piva.local>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90512202115o652d8e00v86182302513d1319@mail.gmail.com>


> 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...

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