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Matt McCutchen <hashproduct@verizon.net> writes:

> Dear GIT people,
>
> How do I package a git repository in a tar file with 666 and 777
> embedded permissions?  There's evidently some way to do it because the
> Linux kernel source packages have 666 and 777 embedded permissions, but
> git-tar-tree gives me a tar file with 644 and 755 permissions and
> there's no obvious way to tell it to do otherwise.

Ouch, thanks for reporting this.  You have spotted a recent
regression.