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bug: git-archive does not use the zip64 extension for archives with more than 16k entries

From
JSJohannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>
Date
Aug 11, 2015, 10:40 UTC
Message-ID
<20150811104056.16465.58131@localhost>
Hi,

for repositories with more than 16k files and folders, git-archive will create zip files which store the wrong number of entries. That is, it stores the number of entries modulo 16k. This will break unpackers that do not include code to support this brokenness.

Instead, git-archive should use the zip64 extension to handle more than 16k files and folders correctly.

Thanks!
cheers, josch
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  4. 1/3 t5004: test ZIP archives with many entriesRené Scharfe, Aug 22, 2015
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  13. Eric SunshineAug 28, 2015
  14. 2/3 archive-zip: use a local variable to store the creator versionRené Scharfe, Aug 22, 2015
  15. 3/3 archive-zip: support more than 65535 entriesRené Scharfe, Aug 22, 2015
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