Re: bsd group semantics

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:32:14AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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My point was if I belong only to my personal group and git.git work tree
is owned by junio.junio to begin with, you would never be able to notice
any breakage with such a test.

Ah, I see. Yes, you would need to belong to at least two groups to make
such a test feasible.

Such a requirement is generally outside the scope of running the
test suite; do you want to just ditch the g+s test, then, or do you want
me to work up something conditional based on the Makefile flag?

For now, I'd suggest teaching the test not to care about g+s bit.
After all, they are about giving correct mode bits to files and
directories.  Correct mode bits for group do not mean anything if you make
them owned by a wrong group, but that is not something we have tested so
far, and can be a separate test anyway.