From: René Scharfe Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:04:57 +0000 (+0200) Subject: archive: document limitation of tar.umask config setting X-Git-Tag: v1.7.4.5~2 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=810cae53e0f622d6804f063c04a83dbc3a11b7ca;p=git.git archive: document limitation of tar.umask config setting The local value of the config variable tar.umask is not passed to the other side with --remote. We may want to change that, but for now just document this fact. Reported-by: Jacek Masiulaniec Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt index bf5037ab2..66943fdf8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt @@ -98,7 +98,8 @@ tar.umask:: 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. + details. If `--remote` is used then only the configuration of + the remote repository takes effect. ATTRIBUTES ----------