From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:03:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make core.sharedRepository more generic (version 4)
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0804151202560.9665@racer>
In-Reply-To: <20080415012156.GA13594@zakalwe.fi>

Hi,

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Heikki Orsila wrote:

> git init --shared=0xxx, where '0xxx' is an octal number, will create
> a repository with file modes set to '0xxx'. Users with a safe umask
> value (0077) can use this option to force file modes. For example,
> '0640' is a group-readable but not group-writable regardless of
> user's umask value.
> 
> "git config core.sharedRepository 0xxx" is also handled.
> 
> Version 2 handles the directory x flags better than version 1.
> 
> Version 3 removes a warning for the o+w case, fixes a compatibility
> problem with older Git's, and corrects some style issues.
> 
> Version 4 really fixes the o+w case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@iki.fi>
> ---

I still see "Version N" before the ---.  You should describe what this 
patch does in a manner that makes sense when reading just the commit 
history.

Ciao,
Dscho