Matt McCutchen <hashproduct@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html