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Subject: Re: git-archive's wrong documentation: really write pax rather than
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> It might be a bit more obvious to find if we actually had a
> --no-pax-header option, though.

Yeah, we would need to make sure that --no-pack-header causes a barf
for other backends, though. "struct archiver_args" right now seems to have
compression_level but I think it should just have "const char **" that is
interpreted by backends.