From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:56:41 GMT
Subject: Re: git-archive's wrong documentation: really write pax rather than tar
Message-ID: <7v62me6ism.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110804014143.GA32579@sigill.intra.peff.net>

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.