[PATCH] umask for multiple commiters

[TK Soh]

On 10/25/06, Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de> wrote:
> * TK Soh <teekaysoh at gmail.com> [20061024 16:19]:
> > On 10/23/06, Alexis S. L. Carvalho <alexis at cecm.usp.br> wrote:
> > >Thus spake Aurelien Jacobs:
> > >> # HG changeset patch
> > >> # User Aurelien Jacobs <aurel at gnuage.org>
> > >> # Date 1161034334 -7200
> > >> # Node ID 29513230e3858b572c6e2fb1d60bcb15b11ab2a4
> > >> # Parent  5207cf649abe173239db83cabf68ea8dedddfd77
> > >> inherit parent directory mode when creating new file
> > >
> > >I don't have a strong opinion on the feature (I think some users will
> > >like it, while others will say that one shouldn't reinvent the wheel and
> > >just use umask), but...
> >
> > +1 on umask. In case this inheritance support did go it, I hope it's
> > configurable and disabled (for now) by default.
>
> It is not in crew yet, but I think there is no need to configure it.
> Or do you know of a use case which gets broken by this?

Nothing on top of my head now. Guess I'm just being uncomfortable
about software that does thing sort of thing silently, as I often only
find out about it after I get bitten.