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git-cvsserver (absent) interaction with --shared=

Subject: git-cvsserver (absent) interaction with --shared=

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One message between Oct 5, 2007 and Oct 5, 2007.

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Jan Wielemaker· Oct 5, 2007, 10:08 UTC · lore

Hi,

Before I forget. The notion of --shared=all/group is very useful for avoiding permission issues in git. GIT repos used for CVS will often be shared. Unfortunately git-cvsserver doesn't make the SQLite databases group-writable if core.sharedrepository = 1.

	--- Jan

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