tar on Mac does not like empty tar from git archive

2013-04-08 Thread BJ Hargrave
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. expecting success

Re: tar on Mac does not like empty tar from git archive

2013-04-08 Thread Jeff King
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

Re: tar on Mac does not like empty tar from git archive

2013-04-08 Thread BJ Hargrave
On Apr 8, 2013, at 17:05 , Jeff King wrote: > 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? I created mac.tar on my Mac and linux.tar on a RHEL6.3 machine (tar (GNU tar) 1.23). Both were created with

Re: tar on Mac does not like empty tar from git archive

2013-04-09 Thread René Scharfe
Am 08.04.2013 23:05, schrieb Jeff King: > 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

Re: tar on Mac does not like empty tar from git archive

2013-04-10 Thread René Scharfe
Am 08.04.2013 20:36, schrieb BJ Hargrave: > 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 co