Re: Git newbie question: permissions

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Samuel Tardieu [off-list ref] wrote:

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"Ed" == Ed Schofield [off-list ref] writes:

Ed> I have now run "git --bare init --shared=group" to reinitialize
Ed> the repository. This seems to have changed the directories to be
Ed> g+sx. (Is this all it did?). There are still some objects
Ed> directories with 755 permissions rather than 770, which I presume
Ed> I want, and the group ownership of these is wrong. Shall I change
Ed> these by hand? The sha1 files all have 444 permissions; is this
Ed> right?

Ed> The last question I have is how to ensure that git creates object
Ed> files etc. with the right permissions when users push in future.

As Marc said, you should first make sure that "config" contains
"sharedrepository = 1" in the "[core]" section.

Then you can do the following:

 - remove all permissions for "others":  chmod -R o-rwx .
 - mirror "user" permissions to "group": chmod -R g=u .
 - add +s flag to directories:           find . -type d | xargs chmod g+s

This should fix your current situation. The "sharedrepository = 1"
will tell git to maintain a proper shared state in the future
on objects it creates (i.e. mirror "user" permission to "group" ones).

This worked beautifully. Thanks Sam, thanks Marc!

-- Ed