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In order to make the generated tar files more friendly to users who extract them as root using GNU tar and its implied -p option, change the default umask to 002 and change the owner name and group name to root. This ensures that a) the extracted files and directories are not world-writable and b) that they belong to user and group root. Before they would have been assigned to a user and/or group named git if it existed. This also answers the question in the removed comment: uid=0, gid=0, uname=root, gname=root is exactly what we want. Normal users who let tar apply their umask while extracting are only affected if their umask allowed the world to change their files (e.g. a umask of zero). This case is so unlikely and strange that we don't need to support it. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>maint
René Scharfe
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Junio C Hamano
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