From: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 11:43:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] t5000: add test for pax extended header generation
Message-ID: <519A0C54.9090707@lsrfire.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <1369043909-59207-1-git-send-email-rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>

Am 20.05.2013 11:58, schrieb René Scharfe:
> This series adds a test that exercises git archive's pax header code.
> It checks for tar versions that don't support pax headers and works
> around their deficiency.
>
> The first five patches are cleanups and refactorings to centralize
> tar calls into a helper function.  The last patch adds the workaround
> at this central place and a file to the test archive whose name is too
> long to fit into the path field of a standard tar header, making a pax
> extended header necessary.

Forgot to mention that the last patch was prompted by Thomas' recent 
test coverage patches.

René