Re: git archive setting user and group

>> From: Jason Pyeron <jpyeron@pdinc.us>
>> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2021 3:09 PM
>>
>> I am about to make a release for logwatch tonight. Historically the files are owned by logwatch in the
>> tgz file. When I use git archive it is owned by uid 0, is there an option to set the uid/uname,
>> gid/gname owner of the files?
>
> Answer: not at this time, as it is hard coded in the source.
>
> archive-tar.c:
> static void prepare_header(struct archiver_args *args,
>                            struct ustar_header *header,
>                            unsigned int mode, unsigned long size)
> {
>         xsnprintf(header->mode, sizeof(header->mode), "%07o", mode & 07777);
>         xsnprintf(header->size, sizeof(header->size), "%011"PRIoMAX , S_ISREG(mode) ? (uintmax_t)size : (uintmax_t)0);
>         xsnprintf(header->mtime, sizeof(header->mtime), "%011lo", (unsigned long) args->time);
>
>         xsnprintf(header->uid, sizeof(header->uid), "%07o", 0);
>         xsnprintf(header->gid, sizeof(header->gid), "%07o", 0);
>         strlcpy(header->uname, "root", sizeof(header->uname));
>         strlcpy(header->gname, "root", sizeof(header->gname));
>
>
> meh.
>