Subject: Re: confused about preserved permissions

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:57:32 -0700

Benoit SIGOURE <[email-masked]> writes:

> Let's look at the problem from another point of view then: I want my
> *working tree* to be group readable even though my umask is 066.

I have to wonder if there is any sane development tool that
supports that kind of thing.  E.g. vi, emacs, gcc,...?  If you
allowed a tool to do that, what's the point of having a umask?