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Re: Checksum incorrectly uses signed values

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TCTomas Carnecky <tomas.carnecky@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 14, 2012, 04:35 UTC
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On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:16:21 -0400, Brendan Brewster <brendan.brewster@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> The issue, in summary, is that 7-zip was unable to untar a tar created
> via a "git archive" whereas gnu tar can. It seem that it may be the
> case that git is incorrectly using signed values when creating the
> checksum.
> 
> Can someone please look into this and possibly redirect if needed?

That was reported a day ago and Junio already wrote a patch. See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/199911.

tom
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