Re: sharedRepository derived from file permissions

2012-10-17 Thread Mark Hills
On Mon, 8 Oct 2012, Junio C Hamano wrote: Mark Hills m...@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

Re: sharedRepository derived from file permissions

2012-10-17 Thread Mark Hills
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

sharedRepository derived from file permissions

2012-10-08 Thread Mark Hills
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

Clone to an SSH destination

2012-09-03 Thread Mark Hills
How do I clone a repo _to_ a new repo over SSH? I tried: cd xx git clone --bare . gitserver:/scm/xx.git git clone --bare . ssh://gitserver/scm/xx.git This does not have the expected result, and instead a local path of the given name is created (eg. a 'gitserver:' directory) This seems to

Re: Clone to an SSH destination

2012-09-03 Thread Mark Hills
On Mon, 3 Sep 2012, Sitaram Chamarty wrote: On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Konstantin Khomoutov flatw...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 11:21:43 +0100 (BST) Mark Hills mark.hi...@framestore.com wrote: [snip] This is quite cumbersome; we have a large team of devs who