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Re: git-clone ignores umask for working tree

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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date
Jul 6, 2012, 21:20 UTC
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On Fri, 6 Jul 2012, Alex Riesen wrote:
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> Hi list,
> 
> when git-clone was built in, its treatment of umask has changed: the shell
> version respected umask for newly created directories by using plain mkdir(1),
> and the builtin version just uses mkdir(work_tree, 0755).
>
> Is it intentional?

I have the vague feeling that it was intentional, but it's entirely plausible that I just overlooked that mkdir(2) applies umask and went for the mode that you normally want. I don't think there's any particular need for this operation to be more restrictive than umask.

	-Daniel
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Message 2 of 10 in “git-clone ignores umask for working tree”
  1. Alex RiesenJul 6, 2012
  2. Daniel BarkalowJul 6, 2012
  3. Restore umasks influence on the permissions of work tree created by cloneAlex Riesen, Jul 7, 2012
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 9, 2012
  5. Alex RiesenJul 9, 2012
  6. Jeff KingJul 9, 2012
  7. Junio C HamanoJul 9, 2012
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 9, 2012
  9. rerere: make rr-cache fanout directory honor umaskJunio C Hamano, Jul 9, 2012
  10. Jeff KingJul 10, 2012

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