From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 05:03:57 GMT
Subject: Re: Producing tar file with 666/777 permissions
Message-ID: <7v7j7ax0le.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <1141446331.3171.4.camel@mattlaptop>

Matt McCutchen <hashproduct@verizon.net> writes:

> Dear GIT people,
>
> How do I package a git repository in a tar file with 666 and 777
> embedded permissions?  There's evidently some way to do it because the
> Linux kernel source packages have 666 and 777 embedded permissions, but
> git-tar-tree gives me a tar file with 644 and 755 permissions and
> there's no obvious way to tell it to do otherwise.

Ouch, thanks for reporting this.  You have spotted a recent
regression.