After some digging I came up to the procedure `activate-users+groups' in the file `gnu/build/activation.scm' and found the following lines:
┌──── │ ;; Always set ownership and permissions for home directories of system │ ;; accounts. If a service needs looser permissions on its home │ ;; directories, it can always chmod it in an activation snippet. │ (chown home (passwd:uid pwd) (passwd:gid pwd)) │ (chmod home #o700))) └──── So it looks like the case for gitolite activation procedure - it should chmod the home directory with respect to the umask value.
