Re: permissions of main folder for git-manpages.tar.gz

Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 05:09:35PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

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 [off-list ref]

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