From: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:17:59 GMT
Subject: git-archive's wrong documentation: really write pax rather than tar
Message-ID: <1312409879.97173.YahooMailClassic@web29501.mail.ird.yahoo.com>

Had a bit of discussion on R-devel a few months ago, and now that I am doing something similiar again I decided to write and report this issue:

http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/quot-R-CMD-check-quot-accepts-but-quot-R-CMD-INSTALL-quot-rejects-a-tar-ball-td3420479.html

The summary of the problem is that, git-archive's "--format=tar" option really write the pax format most of the time, and some cross-platform archive extraction library (rather than the all-powerful GNU tar) really does not think that's the tar format and bail out.

Is it possible to (1) add a warning in the man-page, or (2) actually fix the problem in git-archive ( archive-tar.c ) to generate more conformant archive packages?

Thanks. BTW, git (and git archive) is a great tool!