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archive: document limitation of tar.umask config setting
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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 <jacek.masiulaniec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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René Scharfe authored and Junio C Hamano committed Apr 14, 2011
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Expand Up @@ -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.

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