How to keep groups when pulling with git
- by mimrock
I have a staging site that is a working directory of a git repository. How to set up git to let a developer pull out a branch or release without changing the group of the modified files?
An example. Let's say I have two developers, robin and david. They are both in git-users group, so initially they can both have write permissions on site.php.
-rw-rw-r-- 1 robin git-users 46068 Nov 16 12:12 site.php
drwxrwxr-x 8 robin git-users 4096 Nov 16 14:11 .git
After robin-server1$ git pull origin master:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 robin robin 46068 Nov 16 12:35 site.php
drwxrwxr-x 8 robin git-users 4096 Nov 16 14:11 .git
And david do not have write permissions on site.php, because the group changed from 'git-users' to 'robin'. From now on, david will get a permission denied, when he tries to pull to this repository.
