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Re: A slight inconvenience with 'git archive --format=tar'

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René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date
Jun 13, 2012, 19:58 UTC
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Am 13.06.2012 19:45, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
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> Rafał Mużyło <galtgendo@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I just stumbled upon this while checking a few mailing lists.
>> I haven't found any mails about in in the archives yet, so I assume, that
>> no mail have been written yet.
>>
>> The problem is described here:
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/forums/forum/45798/topic/5322604
>
> Thanks.  It sounds a bit more than "slight inconvenience" to me ;-)

Indeed, but two mitigating factors, if you will, are that this only affects files whose path or link target contain non-ASCII characters, and -- as Rafał wrote -- that GNU tar silently accepts signed checksums as well, which makes it a bit difficult to test.

René
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  1. Rafał MużyłoJun 13, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 13, 2012
  3. René ScharfeJun 13, 2012

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