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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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