Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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> Thanks. I haven't even written a proposed log message yet, but I'll remember.
