From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2011 11:43:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH da/difftool-mergtool-refactor] Makefile: fix permissions of mergetools/ checked out with permissive umask
Message-ID: <20111009114333.GA29829@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <20111009091617.GA29150@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net>

Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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[...]
> Since debian/rules install is run as root, the default is for tar to
> act as thought --preserve-permissions were passed

I should have said: "when 'make install' is run as root, ...".

Typically people building git for private use would run "make install"
as root when installing to /usr/local, but as an unprivileged user
when installing to $HOME.  The RPM packaging runs "make install"
without special privileges and the Debian packaging runs it as (fake)
root, iirc.

Sorry for the lack of clarity.