From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Mark Hills <mark@pogo.org.uk>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sharedRepository derived from file permissions
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:46:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vhaq4nc7g.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1210080955590.12283@wes.ijneb.com> (Mark Hills's message of "Mon, 8 Oct 2012 10:07:30 +0100 (BST)")
Mark Hills <mark@pogo.org.uk> writes:
> We make extensive use of unix permissions and core.sharedRepository --
> multiple developers push to the same repo.
>
> I have often wondered why core.sharedRepository is needed at all as a
> separate configuration?
>
> It looks like it might be easier (and less confusing to users) to derive
> this attribute from the top-level .git directory?
Hrm, clever ;-)
> Is there a reason why Git doesn't just follow (and echo) the top-level
> permissions?
Other than "we did not trust that all the end users are capable of
doing the right 'chmod 2775 .git && chgrp project .git", with a
little bit of "we didn't think of that when we wrote the system", I
do not recall any.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-08 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-08 9:07 sharedRepository derived from file permissions Mark Hills
2012-10-08 16:46 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-10-16 23:20 ` Mark Hills
2012-10-17 7:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-17 12:25 ` Mark Hills
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