Question

I just entered the command:git config core.sharedrepository 1 and I am now receiving the error:

fatal: bad config value for ‘core.sharedrepository’ in ./config

Has anyone any idea how to fix it?

Answer 1

The problem is exactly what it’s saying: 1 is an invalid value for that setting. You probably want true.

From the git-config man page:

When group (or true), the repository is made shareable between several users in a group (making sure all the files and objects are group-writable). When all (or world or everybody), the repository will be readable by all users, additionally to being group-shareable. When umask (or false), git will use permissions reported by umask(2). When 0xxx, where 0xxx is an octal number, files in the repository will have this mode value. 0xxx will override user’s umask value (whereas the other options will only override requested parts of the user’s umask value). Examples: 0660 will make the repo read/write-able for the owner and group, but inaccessible to others (equivalent to group unless umask is e.g. 0022). 0640 is a repository that is group-readable but not group-writable. See git-init(1). False by default.