Shared GIT repo over SSH

GIT over SSH will create files with user:group from the user that’s doing the push. This will prevent other users from changing files, in particular updating refs/heads/.

To share a GIT repo over SSH among several users, create the repo with –shared=group and put all users in the same primary group:

sudo addgroup git
sudo adduser user1 git
sudo adduser user2 git
git init --bare --shared=group

To fix sharing for an already existent setup, fixup the primary groups and file ownership:

sudo cat /etc/group
sudo usermod -g 1006 -G 1007 user1
sudo usermod -g 1006 -G 1008 user2
sudo chown -R root:git /var/repo.git
sudo git config core.sharedRepository group

where 1006 is the ID of the ‘git’ group and 1007 and 1008 refer to the user’s respective groups.