From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH da/difftool-mergtool-refactor] Makefile: fix permissions
 of mergetools/ checked out with permissive umask
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 06:43:33 -0500
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Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> ---
[...]
> Since debian/rules install is run as root, the default is for tar to
> act as thought --preserve-permissions were passed

I should have said: "when 'make install' is run as root, ...".

Typically people building git for private use would run "make install"
as root when installing to /usr/local, but as an unprivileged user
when installing to $HOME.  The RPM packaging runs "make install"
without special privileges and the Debian packaging runs it as (fake)
root, iirc.

Sorry for the lack of clarity.