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RelNotes/1.7.7.1: setgid bit patch is about fixing "git init" via Mak…
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…efile setting

The change was actually about "git init -s" which sets the setgid bit on
SysV-style systems to allow shared access to a repository, and can provoke
errors on BSD-style systems, depending on how permissive the filesystem in
use wants to be.

More to the point, the patch was just taking a fix that arrived for
FreeBSD in v1.5.5 days and making it also apply to machines using an
(obscure) GNU userland/FreeBSD kernel mixture.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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* On some BSD systems, adding +s bit on directories is detrimental
(it is not necessary on BSD to begin with). The installation
procedure has been updated to take this into account.
(it is not necessary on BSD to begin with). "git init --shared"
has been updated to take this into account without extra makefile
settings on platforms the Makefile knows about.

* After incorrectly written third-party tools store a tag object in
HEAD, git diagnosed it as a repository corruption and refused to
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