Re: Honor extractor's umask in git-tar-tree.

From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date: Oct 2, 2005, 09:55 UTC
Message-ID: <pan.2005.10.02.09.55.52.564046@smurf.noris.de>
In-Reply-To: <433F52DC.5090906@zytor.com>

Hi, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> I've thought that it would be nice if the files/directories were written
> into the archive with 0666/0777 permissions by default, and then
> extracted with the umask honoured.

The git archive oesn't *have* permissions, just one "execute" bit.

>  A special option then could be used
> to add files with special permissions, like files in .ssh, which *have*
> to be g-w or sshd will reject them.
>

I'd include a script in the archive which you'd run afterwards to fix problems like this. IMHO, in most situations you'll need it anyway (for instance, to re-start services).

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