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1. Re: [lmi] Sharing git repositories (score: 10)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 22:31:52 +0000

[...] Okay, then how exactly do I use it? Here's a post that seems thoughtful: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3242282/how-to-configure-an-existing-git-repo-to-be-shared-by-a-unix-group/29646155#

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2. Re: [lmi] Sharing git repositories (score: 9)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 23:21:51 +0000

We have several use cases, which are the cartesian product of: (A) our single-user machines (B) a shared corporate server crossed with (0) The public lmi repository. (1) Cached repositories of wx and

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3. Re: [lmi] Sharing git repositories (score: 6)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 16:25:06 +0000

[...] [TL;DR: ...to which we must add: $ chmod g+w FETCH_HEAD # necessary (see below); git defect? ...] Yes, I did discover something like that in online research, but was averse to it because - (sup

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4. Re: [lmi] Sharing git repositories (score: 6)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 02:32:50 +0100

[keeping the above for reference purposes] $repo_name Well, "should" is a difficult question. What I can say is that right now, it can't, because we use files from its working copy (first config.stat

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5. Re: [lmi] Sharing git repositories (score: 6)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 00:24:49 +0100

This depends on what is the actual goal here and I must admit I'm not totally certain about this. Just to explain my point of view/frame of reference: typically, Git is used with several repositories

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6. Re: [lmi] Unexpected git (mis)behavior (score: 4)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 14:53:10 +0000

[...] [...] I don't know, and because we've forcibly fixed it, we can't investigate the failure any further. Oh. Yes. I've made that mistake before. Unfortunately, I didn't record the original permis

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7. Re: [lmi] Sharing git repositories (score: 4)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 23:33:34 +0000

[..."case B1" is the wx* repositories on our corporate server...] It's even more interesting on my own debian machine [0], which has two copies, one bare and one non-bare. Anyway, something's gone aw

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8. Re: [lmi] Unexpected git (mis)behavior (score: 3)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 16:03:50 +0100

[...most of the discussion snipped...] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=sharedrepository&submit=Search&idxname=lmi Yes, this might well be true... But while I don't remember

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9. Re: [lmi] Sharing git repositories (score: 3)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 01:13:03 +0100

remote_host_url=${remote_host_url:-"https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets.git"} Yes, this would work and would indeed be more logical. I don't think it makes sense to use reference repository in thi

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10. [lmi] Sharing git repositories (score: 3)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 00:17:06 +0000

We've copied wx, wxPdfDoc, and proprietary repositories from a single-user msw machine to a redhat server that's intended to support multiple users, where umask was 077; and as the saying goes, "hila

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11. Re: [lmi] Unexpected git (mis)behavior (score: 2)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 01:56:21 +0100

The first puzzle is that I don't understand why did this happen. But this is irrelevant, isn't it? It's the permissions of the parent directory that matters. If Kim didn't have write access to /opt/l

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12. [lmi] Unexpected git (mis)behavior (score: 2)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 00:15:59 +0000

Usually, if some git operation fails, there's a helpful error message that describes what's wrong and clearly suggests what to do about it. Here's a situation that occurred today, where that was not

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13. Re: [lmi] Sharing git repositories (score: 2)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 00:26:18 +0100

intention, Yes, but you seem to have already discovered it and yet discarded it for some reason. To me, the following seems easy, even if not very short, because each step is perfectly logical: $ git

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14. Re: [lmi] Sharing git repositories (score: 2)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 22:55:16 +0000

I've found it really difficult to make a git repository usable by multiple accounts. Please take a look at lmi commit ec1bd048fa, which I've just now pushed, and tell me if I'm missing something. It

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15. Re: [lmi] Sharing git repositories (score: 2)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 01:39:46 +0100

I'm really not sure how did this happen. It's probably too late for this now, but my advice would be to either use tar or rsync when copying between the machines to preserve all the attributes. I shu

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