Re: confused about preserved permissions

Benoit SIGOURE [off-list ref] writes:

Let's look at the problem from another point of view then: I want my
*working tree* to be group readable even though my umask is 066.

I have to wonder if there is any sane development tool that
supports that kind of thing.  E.g. vi, emacs, gcc,...?  If you
allowed a tool to do that, what's the point of having a umask?