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Re: git-archive's wrong documentation: really write pax rather than tar

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 4, 2011, 01:56 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> It might be a bit more obvious to find if we actually had a
> --no-pax-header option, though.

Yeah, we would need to make sure that --no-pack-header causes a barf for other backends, though. "struct archiver_args" right now seems to have compression_level but I think it should just have "const char **" that is interpreted by backends.

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