How can I make my local Git repository accessible for multiple users?

I want to create a git repository and allow all users to have access t开发者_如何学JAVAo it. I tried initializing it by:

git init --shared=all 

However when I change the user and do a git status, I get the following error:

fatal: Unable to create '.git/index.lock': Permission denied

Is this supposed to happen? I access the repo on my local file-system and not via SSH.

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Apparently, --shared={all|world|everybody} is broken in recent Git. Use octal permissions:

git init --shared=0777

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you need to specify in the shared option which group of users you want to share with. http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-init.html

you also need to make sure all the users you want to share with are in the same group.

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Alternatively, you can try to avoid setting the permission level to 777,

change the ownership
sudo chown -v -R username:groupname sprout
chmod -R g+w .git/*