File ownership/group is changed when users push to a GIT repository

Question

For over a year, I\'ve been having troubles with GIT and directory/file permissions. I have a central repository to which multiple developers push code, using ssh (origin se

Answer 1

It looks like you changed the core.sharedRepository after initializing the repository rather than using init --shared=group which should set the permissions up correctly. This means that the sgid bit won't be set on the git repository's directories correctly. You will have to fix this manually with something like (assuming GNU find and xargs):

find . -print0 | xargs -0 chgrp group_name

find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod g+s