On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 07:29:45AM -0700, Scott Parish wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 03:16:01PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Scott R Parish wrote: > > > > > "git init --shared=all" was failing because chmod was returning EPERM. > > > > Not here. > > > > Is it possible that you have stricter permission settings? I finally figured it out. I keep my home directory encrypted, but its pretty slow (especially compiles) and i don't care who steals open source code i'm playing with, so i keep that in /Users/Shared. Since mkdir() on darwin keeps the parents group by default, the group on my git clone was wheel, which i'm not a member of. sRp -- Scott Parish http://srparish.net/ - 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