From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx
Subject: Re: git-archive's wrong documentation: really write pax rather than tar
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 19:41:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110804014143.GA32579@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1312409879.97173.YahooMailClassic@web29501.mail.ird.yahoo.com>
On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 11:17:59PM +0100, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> The summary of the problem is that, git-archive's "--format=tar"
> option really write the pax format most of the time, and some
> cross-platform archive extraction library (rather than the
> all-powerful GNU tar) really does not think that's the tar format and
> bail out.
Out of curiosity, what is the library? Putting pax headers into ustar
format has been standardized in POSIX since 2001.
> Is it possible to (1) add a warning in the man-page, or (2) actually
> fix the problem in git-archive ( archive-tar.c ) to generate more
> conformant archive packages?
That header contains useful information (the commit id from which the
archive was generated). And there is a way to turn it off: give a tree
id instead of a commit id. There is an example in the git-archive
manpage that does exactly this already. Look for the example mentioning
"pax header" here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-archive.html
It might be a bit more obvious to find if we actually had a
--no-pax-header option, though.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-04 1:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-03 22:17 git-archive's wrong documentation: really write pax rather than tar Hin-Tak Leung
2011-08-04 1:41 ` Jeff King [this message]
2011-08-04 1:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-08-04 2:00 ` Jeff King
2011-08-04 2:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-08-04 2:29 ` Jeff King
2011-08-04 17:39 ` René Scharfe
2011-08-04 2:13 ` Jeff King
2011-08-04 22:51 ` Junio C Hamano
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2011-08-04 17:27 (unknown) Hin-Tak Leung
2011-08-04 17:54 ` git-archive's wrong documentation: really write pax rather than tar René Scharfe
2011-08-04 18:33 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2011-08-06 18:57 ` René Scharfe
2011-08-10 3:08 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2011-08-10 19:55 ` René Scharfe
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