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git archive setting user and group

Subject: git archive setting user and group

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Jason Pyeron· Jan 22, 2021, 20:09 UTC · lore

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?

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