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@@ -1625,7 +1625,9 @@ cooperation you are probably more familiar with as well.
For this, set up a public repository on a machine that is
reachable via SSH by people with "commit privileges". Put the
committers in the same user group and make the repository
-writable by that group.
+writable by that group. Make sure their umasks are set up to
+allow group members to write into directories other members
+have created.
You, as an individual committer, then: