Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] archive-tar: write extended headers for file sizes >= 8GB

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jun 24, 2016, 19:46 UTC
Message-ID: <20160624194606.GA6521@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqfus2fk1q.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 12:45:05PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > So if anything, I would put a comment here, explaining that ustar cannot
> > handle anything larger than this, and POSIX mandates it (but I didn't
> > because the commit message already goes into much more detail).
> 
> That sounds like a good thing to do.  Not everybody runs "blame" to
> find the commit whose log message she must read before touching a
> line.

Well, they should. My commit messages are works of literature. ;)

I'll add a comment.

-Peff

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