User properties and how to make files with a specific group owner

[Andrew Falanga]

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Sahil Tandon <sahil at tandon.net> wrote:
> Andrew Falanga <af300wsm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've not had to set this up and so far my efforts have proven less than
>> successful.  I'm working on a web project with my father and one other
>> developer.  I need to have it so that our user id's, when creating files in
>> the directory we share the source code in, create the files with the group
>> id common to the three of us.  How do I do this?
>
> [...]
>
> New files are created with GID set to that of the directory in which they're
> contained.  In your case, is that directory owned by user and group 'andy'?
> If so:
>

Thank you.  That is very helpful.  I did not know that.

Andy