Ilari Liusvaara wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:19:22PM -1000, William Pursell wrote: >> With git-init --shared=0660 and a umask of 022, >> the first commit to the repository creates >> the file COMMIT_EDITMSG with mode 0644 >> instead of 0660. I believe this is incorrect >> behavior. Simple fix: > > COMMIT_EDITMSG is related to committing, committing needs > working copy, and shared working copies don't work all too > well (and Git can't do anything about that because all kinds > of stuff edits the files there, not just Git). > > Shared repository settings are meant to override umasks > for files in actual repository itself. For simple work flows (eg recording linear history of config files), sharing a working directory works okay except for COMMIT_EDITMSG. Since COMMIT_EDITMSG is in the git repository and only written by git, it makes sense for core.sharedrepository to be honored. -- William Pursell -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html