From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 13:58:15 GMT
Subject: Re: Permissions of objects within shared repo
Message-ID: <b_0Yr2BIOq-ZcTAxvkSlKVaJjU1_GJhkRLKGCkG7Uj5ft73JWFjWlA@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>
In-Reply-To: <799406d60904301849t1e77e81bgc6d58ecd0e9d6b7d@mail.gmail.com>

Adam Mercer wrote:

> [ram@g3 ~]$ cd /path/to/repo.git/objects/00/
> [ram@g3 00]$ ls -l
> total 43
> -r--r--r--+ 1 user1           1000  2729 Apr 19 13:13
> 028ade623678384fca34c51e0ea3ae91b8a50d

> will this cause a problem when git gc --auto decides its time to put
> these loose objects into a pack, i.e. will they be able to be removed?

On POSIX filesystems it's the _directory_ permissions which control whether
or not the directory contents can be deleted.

Do:

   ls -ld /path/to/repo.git/objects/00/

and you should see that the group has write permission to this directory
which will allow group members to delete files residing in the directory.

-brandon