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

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Oct 3, 2005, 04:44 UTC
Message-ID: <4340B73B.1090409@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <pan.2005.10.02.09.55.52.564046@smurf.noris.de>

Matthias Urlichs wrote:

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> Hi, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> The git archive oesn't *have* permissions, just one "execute" bit.
>

My point is that I believe it should. It has the bitfield for it, it just doesn't use it at the moment.

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>> 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.
> 
> I'd include a script in the archive which you'd run afterwards to fix
> problems like this. IMHO, in most situations you'll need it anyway
> (for instance, to re-start services).

That is true in some cases, but I highly disagree with the statement "most".

	-hpa