Script to create a shared git project
July 2, 2016
· Admin
Unix
Ubuntu
Linux
GIT
This script creates a git project to be shared among the users of the Unix group $GIT_GROUP. Every git project will be created into the directory $REPOSITORIES_BASE_DIR.
#!/bin/bash
# Base directory where the shared git project are.
REPOSITORIES_BASE_DIR="/home/git"
# Group in which the user's of the repositories must be a member of
GIT_GROUP=git
if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
echo 'Usage:' `basename $0` 'project-name'
exit 1
fi
PROJECT_NAME=$1
cd "$REPOSITORIES_BASE_DIR"
git init --shared --bare "$PROJECT_NAME"
cd ..
find git/$PROJECT_NAME -type d | xargs setfacl -R -m d:g:$GIT_GROUP:rwX
sudo setfacl -R -m g:$GIT_GROUP:rwX git/$PROJECT_NAME
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