Re: Today's 'master' leaves .idx/.pack in 0400

> On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>> 
>> Well, actually there is no point making pack files writable.  If they're 
>> modified, they get corrupted.
>> 
>> Here's the fix I wanted to propose:
>> 
>> diff --git a/builtin-pack-objects.c b/builtin-pack-objects.c
>> index c72e07a..85c6e6e 100644
>> --- a/builtin-pack-objects.c
>> +++ b/builtin-pack-objects.c
>> @@ -1786,11 +1786,13 @@ int cmd_pack_objects(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>>  		if (rename(pack_tmp_name, tmpname))
>>  			die("unable to rename temporary pack file: %s",
>>  			    strerror(errno));
>> +		chmod(tmpname, 0444);
>
> I think this is wrong (as is Junio's). I think we should still honor the 
> repository permission setting, and default to honoring umask.
>
> So I think that if the user has a umask that says "nobody else can read", 
> then we should *not* make it world readable (unless the 
> "shared_repository" thing is set to override it, of course).