As noted by Mike Hommey, the documentation for the config setting tar.umask is not up-to-date. Commit f08b3b0e2e9ad87767d80ff03b013c686e08ba4b changed the default from 0 to 2; this patch finally documents it. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt index 4da07c1..9984a11 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt @@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ in the repository configuration as follows : umask = 002 ;# group friendly The special umask value "user" indicates that the user's current umask -will be used instead. The default value remains 0, which means world -readable/writable files and directories. +will be used instead. The default is 002, which allows reading for all +and writing for both owner and group. EXAMPLES -------- - 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