From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:57:32 GMT Subject: Re: confused about preserved permissions Message-ID: <7vfy2avg2b.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Benoit SIGOURE writes: > Let's look at the problem from another point of view then: I want my > *working tree* to be group readable even though my umask is 066. I have to wonder if there is any sane development tool that supports that kind of thing. E.g. vi, emacs, gcc,...? If you allowed a tool to do that, what's the point of having a umask?