Question

I have a git repository that I am sharing with several developers. We do regular git pulls and pushes with it. Unfortunately, every time I do a git pull the changed files lose the group write permission. How do I stop git from doing this?

I am running this on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

The config on the shared repo looks like this:

[core]
        repositoryformatversion = 0
        filemode = true
        bare = true
        sharedRepository = group

I also ran the following commands on it in an attempt to fix it

find repo.git -type d -exec chmod g+rws {} +
sudo chmod -R g+rw repo.git/objects

No matter what I end up with folders with 755 and files with 644 when I want 775 and 664 respectively.

Answer 1

you can do this on a git hook with something like that:

#!/bin/sh
#
# .git/hooks/post-merge

sudo chmod -R g+rw *

it is called after every git pull, and file (.git/hooks/post-merge) must be executable