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| author | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2009-04-20 08:18:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2009-04-20 08:18:00 +0000 |
| commit | 83eded1eb0303adfb21d32eb32e1dfd9bf3b4135 (patch) | |
| tree | 36a700f55fb08a2bfd7954470e4d303d78ea3a3b /git-init.html | |
| parent | 4cfa536eec2633958acf89eec55351257df9d11a (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-83eded1eb0303adfb21d32eb32e1dfd9bf3b4135.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.6.3-rc1-18-g66996
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diff --git a/git-init.html b/git-init.html index 3ea5e3aa5..247cf9c08 100644 --- a/git-init.html +++ b/git-init.html @@ -384,6 +384,11 @@ is given:</p></div> <p>
<em>group</em> (or <em>true</em>): Make the repository group-writable, (and g+sx, since
the git group may be not the primary group of all users).
+ This is used to loosen the permissions of an otherwise safe umask(2) value.
+ Note that the umask still applies to the other permission bits (e.g. if
+ umask is <em>0022</em>, using <em>group</em> will not remove read privileges from other
+ (non-group) users). See <em>0xxx</em> for how to exactly specify the repository
+ permissions.
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@@ -394,11 +399,12 @@ is given:</p></div> </li>
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-<em>0xxx</em>: <em>0xxx</em> is an octal number and each file will have mode <em>0xxx</em>
- Any option except <em>umask</em> can be set using this option. <em>0xxx</em> will
- override users umask(2) value, and thus, users with a safe umask (0077)
- can use this option. <em>0640</em> will create a repository which is group-readable
- but not writable. <em>0660</em> is equivalent to <em>group</em>.
+<em>0xxx</em>: <em>0xxx</em> is an octal number and each file will have mode <em>0xxx</em>.
+ <em>0xxx</em> will override users' umask(2) value (and not only loosen permissions
+ as <em>group</em> and <em>all</em> does). <em>0640</em> will create a repository which is
+ group-readable, but not group-writable or accessible to others. <em>0660</em> will
+ create a repo that is readable and writable to the current user and group,
+ but inaccessible to others.
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<div class="para"><p>By default, the configuration flag receive.denyNonFastForwards is enabled
in shared repositories, so that you cannot force a non fast-forwarding push
@@ -472,7 +478,7 @@ add all existing file to the index </div>
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-Last updated 2009-04-02 06:49:55 UTC
+Last updated 2009-04-20 08:17:44 UTC
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