From: Tomas Carnecky <tomas.carnecky@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 04:35:21 GMT
Subject: Re: Checksum incorrectly uses signed values
Message-ID: <1339648521-ner-3801@calvin>
In-Reply-To: <CA+-ctj5M4XraOQJfWRVVFmRrNsUZUJyt63_Oi__OJCcYMC=ciw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:16:21 -0400, Brendan Brewster <brendan.brewster@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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