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Update docs on behaviour of 'core.sharedRepository' and 'git init --shared'
This documentation update is needed to reflect the recent changes where "core.sharedRepository = 0mode" was changed to set, not loosen, the repository permissions. Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/config.txt

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group-shareable. When 'umask' (or 'false'), git will use permissions
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reported by umask(2). When '0xxx', where '0xxx' is an octal number,
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files in the repository will have this mode value. '0xxx' will override
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user's umask value, and thus, users with a safe umask (0077) can use
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this option. Examples: '0660' is equivalent to 'group'. '0640' is a
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user's umask value (whereas the other options will only override
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requested parts of the user's umask value). Examples: '0660' will make
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the repo read/write-able for the owner and group, but inaccessible to
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others (equivalent to 'group' unless umask is e.g. '0022'). '0640' is a
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repository that is group-readable but not group-writable.
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See linkgit:git-init[1]. False by default.
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Documentation/git-init.txt

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- 'group' (or 'true'): Make the repository group-writable, (and g+sx, since
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the git group may be not the primary group of all users).
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This is used to loosen the permissions of an otherwise safe umask(2) value.
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Note that the umask still applies to the other permission bits (e.g. if
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umask is '0022', using 'group' will not remove read privileges from other
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(non-group) users). See '0xxx' for how to exactly specify the repository
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permissions.
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- 'all' (or 'world' or 'everybody'): Same as 'group', but make the repository
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readable by all users.
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- '0xxx': '0xxx' is an octal number and each file will have mode '0xxx'
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Any option except 'umask' can be set using this option. '0xxx' will
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override users umask(2) value, and thus, users with a safe umask (0077)
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can use this option. '0640' will create a repository which is group-readable
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but not writable. '0660' is equivalent to 'group'.
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- '0xxx': '0xxx' is an octal number and each file will have mode '0xxx'.
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'0xxx' will override users' umask(2) value (and not only loosen permissions
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as 'group' and 'all' does). '0640' will create a repository which is
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group-readable, but not group-writable or accessible to others. '0660' will
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create a repo that is readable and writable to the current user and group,
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but inaccessible to others.
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By default, the configuration flag receive.denyNonFastForwards is enabled
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in shared repositories, so that you cannot force a non fast-forwarding push

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