Speaking as a non-developer sysadmin, if I were to make a suggestion, it
would be this:
[core]
sharedrepository = {useumask | useronly | userandgroup |
worldreadable}Mark Post
-----Original Message----- From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:git-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Linus Torvalds Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 12:09 AM To: Junio C Hamano Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] shared repository settings enhancement.
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> > Having said that, I do not think the distinction is that > important; I would rather make the core.sharedrepository = true > to mean an equivalent of "chmod go+rX" (it does "chmod g+rX" > currently).
How about making it be
[core]
sharedrepository = {umask | user | group | everybody}and allow the old boolean expression syntax to mean "0/false means umask, 1/true means group".
So you'd have:
- umask/0/false means "use 0777 permissions with default umask" - user means "use 0500 permissions" - group means "use 0550 permissions" - everybody means "use 0555 permissions"
(where "5" is r-x, and only for directories, and obviously degenerates to just "4" aka r-- for regular files).
That sounds really pretty self-explanatory and obvious, wouldn't you say?
Linus