How to configure an existing git repo to be shared by a UNIX group

Question

I have an existing git repo (a bare one) which has up to this point only been writable by me. I want to open it up to some UNIX user group, foo, so that all members of foo can push to it. I'm aware that I can easily set up a new git repo with:

git init --bare --shared=group repodir
chgrp -R foo repodir

But I need the equivalent operation for an existing repo dir.

Answer 1

Try this to make an existing repo in repodir work for users in group foo:

chgrp -R foo repodir                # set the group
chmod -R g+rw repodir               # allow the group to read/write
chmod -R g+s `find repodir -type d` # set directories' sticky bits