[Gnu-arch-users] Re: qn on a shared central archive

[Martin Pool]

On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 22:03:10 +1100, Robert Collins wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 12:42, Martin Pool wrote:
>> On http://wiki.gnuarch.org/moin.cgi/Centralized_20Development Colin
>> suggests creating a single user account to own an archive.  He seems
>> to suggest by omission that it is not a good idea to have several
>> users all come in over SSH and commit to a central directory, as we
>> currently do with CVS.  
>> 
>> It seems like that would work -- doesn't it?  Is there some reason why
>> it's not recommended?
> 
> If the umask is set appropriately, it's just fine. We had a long series
> of folk going 'how do we both use a shared archive and not set the umask
> appropriately'.

OK, I thought that might be it.  A similar thing has been biting me with
svn+ssh repositories.

-- 
Martin