On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 02:36:05PM -0400, BJ Hargrave wrote:
> Git 1.8.2.1 includes commit bd54cf17 - archive: handle commits with an
> empty tree
>
> Test 2 of t5004-archive-corner-cases, "tar archive of empty tree is
> empty", fails on Mac OS X 10.8.3 (with XCode 4.6.1) since the tar
> command exits with return code 1 on the generated tar file.
Hmm. So I guess the question is: do we need to work around this in the
test for platforms that do not like empty tar files, or are the empty
tarfiles we are making wrong somehow?
> tar --version
> bsdtar 2.8.3 - libarchive 2.8.3
>
> It appears that bsdtar does not like the empty tar files created by
> git archive. An empty tar file created by bsdtar is accepted.
>
> tar cT /dev/null | tar t; echo $?
> 0
That makes me think the latter ("we are wrong"). I don't have my OS X
box handy; can you provide a sample empty tarfile that it creates?
-Peff
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