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RelNotes/1.7.7.1: setgid bit patch is about fixing "git init" via Makefile setting
The change was actually about "git init -s" which sets the setgid bit on SysV-style systems to allow shared access to a repository, and can provoke errors on BSD-style systems, depending on how permissive the filesystem in use wants to be. More to the point, the patch was just taking a fix that arrived for FreeBSD in v1.5.5 days and making it also apply to machines using an (obscure) GNU userland/FreeBSD kernel mixture. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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* On some BSD systems, adding +s bit on directories is detrimental
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(it is not necessary on BSD to begin with). The installation
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procedure has been updated to take this into account.
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(it is not necessary on BSD to begin with). "git init --shared"
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has been updated to take this into account without extra makefile
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settings on platforms the Makefile knows about.
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* After incorrectly written third-party tools store a tag object in
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HEAD, git diagnosed it as a repository corruption and refused to

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