From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 21:39:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] archive-tar: write extended headers for far-future mtime
Message-ID: <20160623213924.GA1123@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <576C56CB.1040701@web.de>

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 11:38:19PM +0200, René Scharfe wrote:

> > Yeah, I had a similar thought while writing it, but wasn't quite sure
> > how that was supposed to be formatted. I modeled my output after what
> > GNU tar writes, but of course they are expecting a different mtime for
> > each file.
> > 
> > I'll look into how global pax headers should look.
> 
> Moving the strbuf_append_ext_header() call into
> write_global_extended_header() should be enough.  The changes to the test
> script are a bit more interesting, though.  Perhaps I can come up with
> something over the weekend.

Yeah, I have the code itself working now. I'm just slogging through
writing tests that are efficient and portable. I hope to have something
out soon.

-Peff