From: Sitaram Chamarty Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:33:57 GMT Subject: Re: Error: unable to unlink ... when using "git gc" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <488807870901060705m49419ec1he14aace5caaa3d89@mail.gmail.com> On 2009-01-06, Johnny Lee wrote: > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Sitaram Chamarty wrote: >> 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.