From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:07:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Restore umasks influence on the permissions of work tree created by clone
Message-ID: <7v1ukkjzyz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120709225829.GA8397@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Does the mkdir of "rr-cache/*" in rerere.c make the same mistake? The
> rr-cache root is made with 0777, and the files inside each subdirectory
> are created with 0666.  So it is the only thing preventing users of
> shared repos from using rerere.

Quite possibly yes.  I do not recall tightening permissions on
purpose, and it was a long time ago ;-)