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

[Robert Collins]

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'.

Rob
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