On Fri, 6 Jul 2012, Alex Riesen wrote: > Hi list, > > when git-clone was built in, its treatment of umask has changed: the shell > version respected umask for newly created directories by using plain mkdir(1), > and the builtin version just uses mkdir(work_tree, 0755). > > Is it intentional? I have the vague feeling that it was intentional, but it's entirely plausible that I just overlooked that mkdir(2) applies umask and went for the mode that you normally want. I don't think there's any particular need for this operation to be more restrictive than umask. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* -- 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