Re: [PATCH] git-archive: accept --owner and --group like GNU tar

From: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Date: Jan 4, 2018, 00:43 UTC
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Am 02.01.2018 um 01:32 schrieb Perry Hutchison:

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> Ren?? Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> wrote:
>> Am 29.12.2017 um 15:05 schrieb suzuki toshiya:
>>> The ownership of files created by git-archive is always
>>> root:root. Add --owner and --group options which work
>>> like the GNU tar equivalent to allow overriding these
>>> defaults.
>> ... the receiver would need to be root to set both IDs, or be a
>> group member to set the group ID; I guess the latter is more common.
> 
> If the received files are owned by root:root as stated, I guess the
> receiver must be running as root, no?

That depends on what you mean with "must". Users who want the files they extract to be owned by root need root permissions on Unix and Linux. If they are OK with owning the files themselves then regular user accounts suffice. I assume the latter is much more common.

René