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diff --git a/Documentation/git-init.txt b/Documentation/git-init.txt index 71749c09d3..7ee102da48 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-init.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-init.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-init - Create an empty git repository or reinitialize an existing one SYNOPSIS -------- -'git init' [-q | --quiet] [--bare] [--template=<template_directory>] [--shared[=<permissions>]] +'git init' [-q | --quiet] [--bare] [--template=<template_directory>] [--shared[=<permissions>]] [directory] OPTIONS @@ -54,20 +54,29 @@ is given: - 'group' (or 'true'): Make the repository group-writable, (and g+sx, since the git group may be not the primary group of all users). + This is used to loosen the permissions of an otherwise safe umask(2) value. + Note that the umask still applies to the other permission bits (e.g. if + umask is '0022', using 'group' will not remove read privileges from other + (non-group) users). See '0xxx' for how to exactly specify the repository + permissions. - 'all' (or 'world' or 'everybody'): Same as 'group', but make the repository readable by all users. - - '0xxx': '0xxx' is an octal number and each file will have mode '0xxx' - Any option except 'umask' can be set using this option. '0xxx' will - override users umask(2) value, and thus, users with a safe umask (0077) - can use this option. '0640' will create a repository which is group-readable - but not writable. '0660' is equivalent to 'group'. + - '0xxx': '0xxx' is an octal number and each file will have mode '0xxx'. + '0xxx' will override users' umask(2) value (and not only loosen permissions + as 'group' and 'all' does). '0640' will create a repository which is + group-readable, but not group-writable or accessible to others. '0660' will + create a repo that is readable and writable to the current user and group, + but inaccessible to others. By default, the configuration flag receive.denyNonFastForwards is enabled in shared repositories, so that you cannot force a non fast-forwarding push into it. +If you name a (possibly non-existent) directory at the end of the command +line, the command is run inside the directory (possibly after creating it). + -- @@ -86,11 +95,11 @@ If the object storage directory is specified via the `$GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY` environment variable then the sha1 directories are created underneath - otherwise the default `$GIT_DIR/objects` directory is used. -Running 'git-init' in an existing repository is safe. It will not overwrite -things that are already there. The primary reason for rerunning 'git-init' +Running 'git init' in an existing repository is safe. It will not overwrite +things that are already there. The primary reason for rerunning 'git init' is to pick up newly added templates. -Note that 'git-init' is the same as 'git-init-db'. The command +Note that 'git init' is the same as 'git init-db'. The command was primarily meant to initialize the object database, but over time it has become responsible for setting up the other aspects of the repository, such as installing the default hooks and |