X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-tar-tree.txt;h=74ed06525e8f920017469301f9773e4b36080ee9;hb=8e69d78be3f315ea8c7b96400c0c65763b3e8f00;hp=2d01d9666fd2ab5f53ab2265ca701d56ea370f8b;hpb=f16eb1f6a3f9a1a09a61f0cd07e9c9ff9ee54530;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt index 2d01d9666..74ed06525 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt @@ -42,16 +42,13 @@ OPTIONS CONFIGURATION ------------- -By default, file and directories modes are set to 0666 or 0777. It is -possible to change this by setting the "umask" variable in the -repository configuration as follows : -[tar] - umask = 002 ;# group friendly - -The special umask value "user" indicates that the user's current umask -will be used instead. The default value is 002, which means group -readable/writable files and directories. +tar.umask:: + This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of + tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the + world write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the + archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for + details. EXAMPLES -------- @@ -89,4 +86,4 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list