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authorJohan Herland <johan@herland.net>2009-04-14 15:15:42 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-04-18 12:51:06 -0700
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Update docs on behaviour of 'core.sharedRepository' and 'git init --shared'
This documentation update is needed to reflect the recent changes where "core.sharedRepository = 0mode" was changed to set, not loosen, the repository permissions. Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -54,15 +54,21 @@ is given:
- 'group' (or 'true'): Make the repository group-writable, (and g+sx, since
the git group may be not the primary group of all users).
+ This is used to loosen the permissions of an otherwise safe umask(2) value.
+ Note that the umask still applies to the other permission bits (e.g. if
+ umask is '0022', using 'group' will not remove read privileges from other
+ (non-group) users). See '0xxx' for how to exactly specify the repository
+ permissions.
- 'all' (or 'world' or 'everybody'): Same as 'group', but make the repository
readable by all users.
- - '0xxx': '0xxx' is an octal number and each file will have mode '0xxx'
- Any option except 'umask' can be set using this option. '0xxx' will
- override users umask(2) value, and thus, users with a safe umask (0077)
- can use this option. '0640' will create a repository which is group-readable
- but not writable. '0660' is equivalent to 'group'.
+ - '0xxx': '0xxx' is an octal number and each file will have mode '0xxx'.
+ '0xxx' will override users' umask(2) value (and not only loosen permissions
+ as 'group' and 'all' does). '0640' will create a repository which is
+ group-readable, but not group-writable or accessible to others. '0660' will
+ create a repo that is readable and writable to the current user and group,
+ but inaccessible to others.
By default, the configuration flag receive.denyNonFastForwards is enabled
in shared repositories, so that you cannot force a non fast-forwarding push