Re: "git archive" seems to be broken wrt zip files

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sep 14, 2011, 06:55 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+55aFwLk8XcCDXM0w_wf5RnoB4oGxkjJrUGLB5wgSkx385b_g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFxsaE5btVJmM_QaUMcDzBg4df-g8X7NknC6t9UM+oQATw@mail.gmail.com>

Re-sent as this clearly never seems to have gone anywhere due to me not realizing that the LF problems meant that while incoming email worked fine, going out through smpt.linux-foundation.org didn't work.

                     Linus

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

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> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>>
>> It is.  This only happens if you have more then 16k entries and when one
>> of the 16k entry infos is reused it happend to be previously used for a
>> symlink entry.
>
> Thanks for the explanation.
>
>> Here's a patch for unzip60 for reference:
>
> Is this problem known to the unzip developers? Is it actively
> maintained any more? The 6.0 release seems to have been from April
> 2009, and the web page seems to have a "last updated" of September
> 2009.. Is there some other unofficial archive for bugfixes like this?
> Distros?
>
>                            Linus
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