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| author | René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> | 2007-08-21 20:01:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-08-22 15:19:41 -0700 |
| commit | 687157c736d7a1aac152866cbe20030aaa25513f (patch) | |
| tree | b287d37f57491644d36dafaa32682a80b774d8bf /Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt | |
| parent | 8fa0ee3b50736eb869a3e13375bb041c1bf5aa12 (diff) | |
| download | git-687157c736d7a1aac152866cbe20030aaa25513f.tar.gz | |
Documentation: update tar.umask default
As noted by Mike Hommey, the documentation for the config setting tar.umask
is not up-to-date. Commit f08b3b0e2e9ad87767d80ff03b013c686e08ba4b changed
the default from 0 to 2; this patch finally documents it.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt index 2d01d9666f..434607bfb5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt @@ -42,16 +42,13 @@ OPTIONS CONFIGURATION ------------- -By default, file and directories modes are set to 0666 or 0777. It is -possible to change this by setting the "umask" variable in the -repository configuration as follows : -[tar] - umask = 002 ;# group friendly - -The special umask value "user" indicates that the user's current umask -will be used instead. The default value is 002, which means group -readable/writable files and directories. +tar.umask:: + This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of + tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the + world write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the + archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for + details. EXAMPLES -------- |