From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2020 18:10:05 GMT
Subject: Re: permissions of main folder for git-manpages.tar.gz
Message-ID: <xmqq363qx1mq.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200909032838.GA59978@Carlos-MBP>

Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 05:09:35PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>> I'm contemplating to apply something like the following patch to the
>> build procedure so that I can externally control the mode bits
>> recorded in the tarball by setting TAR_C_EXTRA_OPTS to options that
>> overrides mode bits and stuff (it takes GNU tar unfortunately, but
>> I suspect I am the only person that runs dist-doc target anyway)
>
> also useful (albeit not for the same reason) with BSD tar for adding
> things like "--check-links", either way don't forget the signed-off
> while adding:
>
>   Tested-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>

Thanks.  I haven't even written a proposed log message yet, but I'll
remember.