On 2008-06-15T06:38:21+0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, Allan Wind wrote: > > > Is anyone looking into fixing gc so it does not change permission on > > files? I would think it should consider current permissions of files > > before umask. > > > > I believe Nigel reported this issue with: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/79213/focus=79237 > > and still seeing issues with 1.5.5.4. > > It would have been nice to briefly illustrate the problem again. Of course. # umask umask 0022 # find . -ls > /tmp/before # git gc Counting objects: 1435, done. Compressing objects: 100% (747/747), done. Writing objects: 100% (1435/1435), done. Total 1435 (delta 690), reused 1422 (delta 682) # find . -ls > /tmp/after On these files group write is revoked when running gc (g-w). /tmp/before: 16420 662752 -rw-rw---- 1 root users 677990209 Jun 15 01:49 ./objects/pack/pack-f962a3321392570 5b321ad2ba6ccb0037114f92d.pack 16432 36 -rw-rw---- 1 root users 35504 Jun 15 01:49 ./objects/pack/pack-f962a33213925705b3 21ad2ba6ccb0037114f92d.idx ... 18258 4 drwxrwx--- 2 allan users 4096 Jun 15 01:47 ./logs/refs/heads 16481 8 -rw-rw---- 1 root users 6100 Jun 15 01:47 ./logs/refs/heads/master and /tmp/after: 16401 662752 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 677990209 Jun 15 01:59 ./objects/pack/pack-f962a3321392570 5b321ad2ba6ccb0037114f92d.pack 16404 36 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 35504 Jun 15 01:59 ./objects/pack/pack-f962a33213925705b3 21ad2ba6ccb0037114f92d.idx ... 16402 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6100 Jun 15 01:57 ./logs/refs/heads/master 16403 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6100 Jun 15 01:57 ./logs/HEAD and these on these other read permissions (o+r) is added. /tmp/before: 16394 4 -rw-rw---- 1 root users 54 Jun 15 01:49 ./objects/info/packs 16481 8 -rw-rw---- 1 root users 6100 Jun 15 01:47 ./logs/refs/heads/master 16475 8 -rw-rw---- 1 root users 6100 Jun 15 01:47 ./logs/HEAD 16485 16 -rw-rw---- 1 root users 14773 Jun 15 01:47 ./packed-refs and /tmp/after: 16393 4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 54 Jun 15 01:59 ./objects/info/packs 16402 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6100 Jun 15 01:57 ./logs/refs/heads/master 16403 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6100 Jun 15 01:57 ./logs/HEAD 16386 16 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 14773 Jun 15 01:57 ./packed-refs I seem to recall that push to the repository also introduces files without group write permission. Unfortunately it looks something broke when I ran gc. Any help in getting my repository back up would be appreciated: allan@vent:~/var/git/www2$ git clone ssh://pawan.localnet./var/lib/git/www.git Initialized empty Git repository in /home/allan/var/git/www2/www/.git/ fatal: git-upload-pack: cannot find object 56032c4f35fd39fe4151fca2d010d299a8901101: fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly fetch-pack from 'ssh://pawan.localnet./var/lib/git/www.git' failed. /Allan -- 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