On Sunday, February 11, 2024 2:10 PM, brian m. carlson wrote: >On 2024-02-11 at 16:43:33, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> You definitely must set up your initial directory with g+s if you are >> usihng the group-writable shared directory model (which I would >> actually be surprised to see in 2020---is a shared machine with more >> than one user-account still a thing???); adjust_shared_perm() will not >> help you there. > >I think it's relatively common to have shell hosts from which to log into production >machines, or to have shared hosts for students at universities, and I do know that >shared web hosting is still quite popular (because it tends to be very economical and >low maintenance for the user). > >I don't know that shared repositories are really that common anymore, and I do >usually recommend that people clone their own copies whenever possible, but I >have seen posts on StackOverflow where people are in fact using a shared >repository (possibly with multiple worktrees) on one system for various reasons. In my community, shared repositories are particularly common on the operations side of the fence. It is a balance between the need for one user id (generally does not log on) running the scripts, and the individual operations staff specifying them. I have developed (commercial) solutions to this that remove the need shared repositories in this circumstance, but up to now, I have seen them used. This comes into play when multiple people are manipulating web server content without a separate deployment mechanism.
