Re: [PATCH] commit: ensure correct permissions of the commit message

> Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
> 
> >SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> writes:
> >
> > >Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
> > >
> > > >Actually, we do not even _need_ a sharedness for this ephemeral
> > > >file.  The additional "adjust-shared-perm" is merely a workaround
> > > >for the fact the next person cannot write into it when it is left
> > > >behind, and because we do not want to remove it when we are done.
> > >
> > >Do we really want to keep such a file after we are done?
> >
> >There is no strong reason we should want to remove them, either.
> >
> >As long as the lazy garbage collection works, there is no incentive
> >to change things.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by "lazy garbage collection"; I suppose not
> that I sometimes delete a stale COMMIT_EDITMSG or two by hand...