From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2011 21:47:52 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH da/difftool-mergtool-refactor] Makefile: fix permissions of mergetools/ checked out with permissive umask Message-ID: <20111009214752.GB3006@elie> In-Reply-To: <1C9F1683-4C6E-4D49-86D3-3A47B2843F23@gmail.com> David Aguilar wrote: > thanks. I agree that the tar is overkill. I think I copied that > snippet from templates/makefile. does that have the same bug? It did have a similar bug before, but it was fixed (in a different way) by v1.6.0.3~81^2 (Fix permission bits on sources checked out with an overtight umask, 2008-08-21). The main difference from the mergetools/ case is that the blt/ directory is populated at build time.