[PATCH] umask for multiple commiters

[Aurelien Jacobs]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:51:31 +0200
Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de> wrote:

> * Aurelien Jacobs <aurel at gnuage.org> [20061013 01:11]:
> > Some times ago, there was a disscussion about setting umask in mercurial:
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.mercurial.devel/4532
> > There was no conclusion to this thread :-(
> > 
> > Now I'm setting up a repo with multiple commiters using SGID, so I need
> > umask to be set to 002 so that new files are created group writable.
> > 
> > Attached is an updated version of the patch sent in the original thread.
> > I think it's the best and simplest solution.
> 
> Shouldn't the umask setting apply to all things written by hg then,
> not only hg serve --stdio?

I personnaly only need it for server mode, but indeed, it could be
useful more globally.

> In this case putting it in the [web] or [server] section isn't good.
> Maybe we need something like the [ui] section for all non-ui-related
> stuff, as currently the number of sections with only one setting
> isn't nice. Maybe [settings] or [general]?

Agree. Attached is a new patch which use [general] and set the umask
globally.

Aurel
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