Re: Honor extractor's umask in git-tar-tree.

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Oct 2, 2005, 03:24 UTC
Message-ID: <433F52DC.5090906@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vk6gx3vkt.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> The archive generated with git-tar-tree had 0755 and 0644 mode bits.
> This inconvenienced the extractor with umask 002 by robbing g+w bit
> unconditionally.  Just write it out with loose permissions bits and
> let the umask of the extractor do its job.

I've thought that it would be nice if the files/directories were written into the archive with 0666/0777 permissions by default, and then extracted with the umask honoured. A special option then could be used to add files with special permissions, like files in .ssh, which *have* to be g-w or sshd will reject them.

	-hpa