RE: git archive setting user and group
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> From: Konstantin Ryabitsev
> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2021 4:40 PM
> Subject: Re: git archive setting user and group
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 10:00:04PM +0100, René Scharfe wrote:
> > Adding support for using a custom user and group should be easy. Is
> > this just a cosmetic thing? Regular users would ignore the user info in
> > the archive, and root should not be used for extracting, and on systems
> > that don't have a logwatch user this wouldn't make a difference anyway,
> > right?
>
> Right now, "git archive" operations are bit-for-bit identical across all
> versions going back at least 8+ years. In fact, we've been relying on this to
> support bundling tarball signatures with git tags themselves (via git notes).
> E.g. you can see this in action here:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tag/?h=v5.10.9
>
> If you click on "(sig)", you will download a signature that can be used to
> verify the tarball generated using "git archive".
>
> I would argue that adding user/group support to "git archive" operation is
> not really solving any problems other than "it's different from when I run it
> as a regular user" -- and can introduce potential compatibility problems if
Being pedantic here, it is different than when I run it as any user - including root.
Don’t confuse tar x with tar c.
tar c captures the current owner of the files, or allows override with a single user / map file.
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> implemented.
>
> So, I would selfishly vote not to implement this.
>
> -K
Jason Pyeron <jpyeron@pdinc.us>