Hi brian! > No, the permissions of a repository, whether standard Unix permissions > or ACLs, are not relevant to ownership. The question here is whether > the owner of the .git directory (that is, the value of the `st_uid` > field when calling lstat(2) on it) is equal to the effective user ID. > > When you the path in `ls`, you can see the owner and group of the file > specified, and that owner is what matters here. I see. Is that by design or an implementation detail? Kindly, John
