On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Paul Mattal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 21, 2008, at 9:01 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > >> Ok, so in an attempt to get around our reliance on the >> adjust-permssions script, I added some chmod stuff into the dbscripts, >> to automatically g+w all files a given person moves out. >> >> Turns out I didn't know everything. Looks like this only works if a >> given person is the owner of the file. Eduardo ran into an error with >> this, and I can't figure out why it fails for him, but not for me... I >> am in the wheel group, but not actively using sudo powers... >> >> I'm confused. Does anyone know a better way to ensure g+w permissions >> when we do this stuff? How does git maintain permissions when the repo >> is set to shared? Would it be better to adjust the umask in the >> dbscripts? >> >> Thoughts and opinions would be appreciated. > > Sounds like a place where we should use ACLs. Though somewhat annoying to > set up, they let you do exactly what it sounds like we want.
The only reason I don't want to depend on ACLs here is that tons of other things (svn and git, for instance) seem to be able to do this just fine...
