How to configure an existing git repo to be shared by a UNIX group

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Pistos picture Pistos · Jul 14, 2010 · Viewed 70.9k times · Source

I have an existing git repo (a bare one) which has up to this point only been writable by me. I want to open it up to some UNIX user group, foo, so that all members of foo can push to it. I'm aware that I can easily set up a new git repo with:

git init --bare --shared=group repodir
chgrp -R foo repodir

But I need the equivalent operation for an existing repo dir.

Answer

David Underhill picture David Underhill · Jul 14, 2010

Try this to make an existing repository in repodir work for users in group foo:

chgrp -R foo repodir                 # set the group
chmod -R g+rw repodir                # allow the group to read/write
chmod g+s `find repodir -type d`     # new files get group id of directory
git init --bare --shared=all repodir # sets some important variables in repodir/config ("core.sharedRepository=2" and "receive.denyNonFastforwards=true")

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