Re: Error: unable to unlink ... when using "git gc"

From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 6, 2009, 15:33 UTC
Message-ID: <slrngm6uf5.vuo.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net>
In-Reply-To: <488807870901060705m49419ec1he14aace5caaa3d89@mail.gmail.com>

On 2009-01-06, Johnny Lee <johnnylee194@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com> wrote:

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>> If you're not worried about the finer-grained access control
>> that acl(5) gives you, just do what "git init
>> --shared=group" does:
>>
>>    git config core.sharedrepository 1 # as mentioned above
>>    chmod g+ws .git
>>
>> Now set the group to something (I use "gitpushers" ;-)
>>
>>    chgrp -R gitpushers .git
>>
>> amd make sure all your users are part of that group.

> We also plan to do it in this way, just a small wondering that it
> looks a kind of workaround instead of a more graceful solution.

I wouldn't consider it a workaround. It uses normal Unix permissions the way they were designed to, including setgid for directories.

Actually, I am yet to come up with a situation where I actually needed ACLs, though they are more generalised, and fine-grained.

And the maint is all eminently scriptable.