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  r75659 | tarek.ziade | 2009-10-24 15:29:44 +0200 (Sat, 24 Oct 2009) | 1 line

  #7066 - Fixed distutils.archive_util.make_archive behavior so it restores the cwd
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+- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is 
+  raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
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 - Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
   Distutils.