Re: Commit templates are not readable after 'make install'

"Anatol Pomozov" [off-list ref] writes:

I build git from sources and I have one small permissions issue that
(I think) should be fixed.

So I build it as described in INSTALL file
make prefix=/usr all
sudo make prefix=/usr install

Everything goes fine here and we have a new version of git installed
$ git --version
git version 1.6.0.1.285.g1070

But when I want to create a new repo, I have a fatal problem
$ git init
fatal: cannot copy
/usr/share/git-core/templates/hooks/applypatch-msg.sample to
/personal/sources/opensource/1/.git/hooks/applypatch-msg.sample


Because of the template files are readable only for root
$ ls -l /usr/share/git-core/templates/hooks/
total 44
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root  452 2008-08-29 11:04 applypatch-msg.sample
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root  894 2008-08-29 11:04 commit-msg.sample
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root  160 2008-08-29 11:04 post-commit.sample
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root  553 2008-08-29 11:04 post-receive.sample

Didn't 9907721 (templates/Makefile: don't depend on local umask setting,
2008-02-28) take care of that?

    ... goes and looks ...

Ah, that is only to propagate the wish of the person who _built_ it.

You probably have a tight umask and have sources checked out unreadable to
others, which is propagated to the installation (check the permission of
files in your templates/blt directory to verify this conjecture).  And the
build procedure is honoring your wish to make things unreadable to others.