From: BJ Hargrave Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:07:14 GMT Subject: Re: tar on Mac does not like empty tar from git archive Message-ID: <9AA8143E-C8A2-4EB3-AB35-27C7031B4ED7@bjhargrave.com> In-Reply-To: <20130408210536.GB9649@sigill.intra.peff.net> On Apr 8, 2013, at 17:05 , Jeff King wrote: > That makes me think the latter ("we are wrong"). I don't have my OS X > box handy; can you provide a sample empty tarfile that it creates? I created mac.tar on my Mac and linux.tar on a RHEL6.3 machine (tar (GNU tar) 1.23). Both were created with tar cTf /dev/null xxx.tar Both files are accepted by tar on both the Mac and the RHEL machines. (Both files contain nothing but zeros.) -- BJ Hargrave