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Re: permissions of main folder for git-manpages.tar.gz

From
Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 9, 2020, 03:28 UTC
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<20200909032838.GA59978@Carlos-MBP>
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<xmqq7dt3x134.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 05:09:35PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> 
> I'm contemplating to apply something like the following patch to the
> build procedure so that I can externally control the mode bits
> recorded in the tarball by setting TAR_C_EXTRA_OPTS to options that
> overrides mode bits and stuff (it takes GNU tar unfortunately, but
> I suspect I am the only person that runs dist-doc target anyway)

also useful (albeit not for the same reason) with BSD tar for adding things like "--check-links", either way don't forget the signed-off while adding:

  Tested-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Carlo
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  1. Daniel VilleneuveSep 8, 2020
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 9, 2020
  3. Carlo Marcelo Arenas BelónSep 9, 2020
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 9, 2020
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 9, 2020

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