Messages in this thread | | | From | Junio C Hamano <> | Subject | Re: Kernelsources writeable for everyone?! | Date | Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:11:55 -0700 |
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"Joshua Hudson" <joshudson@gmail.com> writes:
> I feel like asking how they initially get set to world-writable. To me > it means that the tree that is being tarred up for distribution is > world-writible. I sure hope that it is a single-user box.
It is _not_ coming from a working tree at all.
git-tar-tree generates the tar image from a git tree object, and when it does so, it deliberately sets the mode bits to 0666/0777 so that umask of the people who extract the tarball is honored. In very early days once we made a mistake of generating the tar archive with more restrictive permission bits (I think it was 0644 or 0755) which was very impolite way to annoy people with 002 umask.
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