Re: unix groups and umasks

> Normally, people in this situation can get by with the same umask
> directive for all repositories.
 
Well, 007 for group projects and 077 for personal projects ideally, but
this is indeed not crucial. Umask 007 will do for everyone, as the
project root of personal stuff can still be chmod'ed to 700.

> If you set the repository directories to have the g+s bit, then new
> files will be created with a group ownership of the directory's group
> owner, rather than by the user's primary gid. (On some operating
> systems, I think particularly the *BSDs, this behavior holds even
> without the g+s bit, and the g+s bit on a directory is a no-op.)
>
> This should remove the need for any process gid hacking.
 
That would indeed be enough. And it's an elegant solution. Thanks !

Dirk van Deun

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