From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:21:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Restore umasks influence on the permissions of work tree created by clone
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In-Reply-To: <7vobnpn224.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 3:41 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> The original (shell coded) version of the git-clone just used mkdir(1)
>> to create the working directories. The builtin changed the mode argument
>> to mkdir(2) to 0755, which was a bit unfortunate, as there are use
>
> A much more important reason why this is a good change (I think you
> could even say this is a bugfix) is because directories and files in
> the working tree are created with entry.c::create_directories() and
> entry.c::create_file(), and they do honour umask settings, and the
> top-level of the working tree should be handled the same way, no?

Well, the top-level directories of anything are often handled specially,
but yes, I agree indeed. Frankly, I wondered why the top-level wasn't
created safe_create_leading_directories() or something like that.

>> cases where umask-controlled creation is preferred and in any case
>> it is a well-known behaviour for new directory/file creation.
>
> Sign-off?

It was an RFC until now :)

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>