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

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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