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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Honor extractor's umask in git-tar-tree.
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 11:32:04 -0700
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Is it? The only place umask is mentioned in the man-page is
> 
>        --no-same-permissions
>               apply  user?s  umask  when  extracting files instead of recorded
>               permissions
> 
> but if tar really does honor umask, then hey, that 0777/0666 is fine.
> 
> (Ahh, googling a bit more, it appears that "-p" is default for root, which 
> explains why you'd need the "anti-flag").
> 

Yeah, that assymetry is rather unfortunate.

	-hpa