I've been running testsuite on a few platforms that are unfamiliar
to me, and was bitten by BSD implementation of tar that do not grok
the extended pax headers. I've already fixed one in t9502 [*1*]
where we produce a tarball with "git archive" and then try to
validate it with the platform impleme
Am 24.12.2012 21:49, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> I've been running testsuite on a few platforms that are unfamiliar
> to me, and was bitten by BSD implementation of tar that do not grok
> the extended pax headers. I've already fixed one in t9502 [*1*]
> where we produce a tarball with "git archive"
René Scharfe writes:
> Anyway, I don't think the pax headers are to blame here. The patch below
> fixes the tar failures for me, but I'm not sure why. There must be
> something special about some (not all!) directory entries with trailing
> slashes after directory names.
>
> Several ZIP tests s
René Scharfe writes:
> Anyway, I don't think the pax headers are to blame here.
Hmph, I am reasonably sure I saw a test that created an archive from
a commit (hence with pax header), asked platform tar to either list
the contents or actually extracted to the filesystem, and tried to
ensure nothi
Am 05.01.2013 21:11, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
René Scharfe writes:
Anyway, I don't think the pax headers are to blame here.
Hmph, I am reasonably sure I saw a test that created an archive from
a commit (hence with pax header), asked platform tar to either list
the contents or actually extract
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