> > I checked the src.tgz file, I was only a bit confused about the > "pax_global_header" file, looks as if it contains the commit hash. What's > this? >
Seems like a file created by git export - Kernel tar-archives created by git contain an extended header with the git commit ID that was used to generate the tar-tree. If your tar is older than 1.14 then this extended header will be extracted as a regular file called pax_global_header. Patches should never be generated against this file, so it should be listed in dontdiff.
