Add an option not to use link(src, dest) && unlink(src) when that is unreliable

[git.git] / Documentation / git-init.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-init.txt b/Documentation/git-init.txt
index 45244737fda157b81078574ae482ee4a478e9c43..7151d12f349b7c6e265d5a4631029d71028a2c7d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-init.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-init.txt
@@ -54,15 +54,21 @@ 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
@@ -86,11 +92,11 @@ 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