Re: TRAMP and umask (and git)

[akater]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> sudo requires an additional "-i" argument in order to to run the shell
> as login shell, reading ~/.profile. So you must teach the "sudo" entry
> in tramp-methods to add this argument, via tramp-login-args.

I've had it for some time (I wonder why it's not built-in), and tried it
but it didn't work for this particular user.  I ended up used a
workaround but thank you anyway.  At least I now know it's possible to
use different umasks from a single Emacs process.