Re: git archive setting user and group

René Scharfe [off-list ref] writes:

Am 22.01.21 um 21:40 schrieb Jason Pyeron:
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        xsnprintf(header->uid, sizeof(header->uid), "%07o", 0);
        xsnprintf(header->gid, sizeof(header->gid), "%07o", 0);
        strlcpy(header->uname, "root", sizeof(header->uname));
        strlcpy(header->gname, "root", sizeof(header->gname));

Adding support for using a custom user and group should be easy.  Is
this just a cosmetic thing?  Regular users would ignore the user info in
the archive, and root should not be used for extracting, and on systems
that don't have a logwatch user this wouldn't make a difference anyway,
right?

I am not particularly interested in cosmetics, but it probably is OK
to make uname/gname overridable.  I do not see any point in uid/gid
numeric values overridable, though.  Just like user names and group
names do not name the same user and group on every machine, uid/gid
are even less so.