On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 05:09:35PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > I'm contemplating to apply something like the following patch to the > build procedure so that I can externally control the mode bits > recorded in the tarball by setting TAR_C_EXTRA_OPTS to options that > overrides mode bits and stuff (it takes GNU tar unfortunately, but > I suspect I am the only person that runs dist-doc target anyway) also useful (albeit not for the same reason) with BSD tar for adding things like "--check-links", either way don't forget the signed-off while adding: Tested-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@xxxxxxxxx> Carlo