On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 10:14:28AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi Joey, > > On 2015-07-06 21:25, Joey Hess wrote: > > joey@darkstar:~/tmp>git init --shared=world testrepo > > Initialized empty shared Git repository in /home/joey/tmp/testrepo/.git/ > > joey@darkstar:~/tmp>grep shared testrepo/.git/config > > sharedrepository = 2 > > > > This magic value of 2 seems to be undocumented, as is the magic value of 1 > > that's equvilant to "group". > > > > I think it would be better to have git init put in "world" or "group" and not > > these magic values. Anyway, I suppose they ought to be documented too. > > The rationale can be found here: > https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.4.5/builtin/init-db.c#L413-L418 > > /* We do not spell "group" and such, so that > * the configuration can be read by older version > * of git. Note, we use octal numbers for new share modes, > * and compatibility values for PERM_GROUP and > * PERM_EVERYBODY. > */ > > I am sympathetic to your wish, of course, and I am sure that you > understand why we cannot simply break other people's setups to satisfy > it. That comment was added in 94df250 (shared repository: optionally allow reading to "others"., 2006-06-09) which was in 1.4.1. I suspect that is now sufficiently old that it no longer matters. -- 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