On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Mark Hills <m...@pogo.org.uk> writes: > > >> > 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. > > > > Thanks. If I understand, you mean it might be worth a try to implement > > this. > > Not really. > > I still do not think that all the end users are capable of doing the > right 'chmod 2775 .git && chgrp project .git' themselves.
But with the current method, users still have to do this _and_ set sharedRepository=. It would make things hard or impossible if we assume that a user wanting to share a repository does not understand file modes or groups. -- Mark -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
