Git change default umask when update file

Question

I have a problem with Git. I searched for a solution in Google and in StackOverflow but nothing helps.

The problem is that every time git updates some file in the wo

Answer 1

It is kind of dangerous to allow file execution as a binary. Anyway I solved the problem with umask. My post-receive script looks like:

!/bin/sh
umask 002
GIT_WORK_TREE=/var/www/site git checkout -f

So, file permissions set to 664 and directory permissions set to 775, which suits me perfectly.

P.S. Setting umask in a .profile file of git user has no effect, and I don't understand why, please comment out if you know why this happens.