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Re: bug: git-archive does not use the zip64 extension for archives with more than 16k entries

From
Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 15, 2015, 08:40 UTC
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On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 2:40 AM, René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> wrote:
> Seriously, though: What kind of repository has that many files and uses the
> ZIP format to distribute snapshots?  Just curious.

Not the "uses the zip format" part, but at least webkit and gentoo-x86 both exceed 64k limit. Even if we don't support this case, we probably should error out instead of producing corrupt archives.

-- 
Duy
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Message 16 of 18 in “bug: git-archive does not use the zip64 extension for archives with more than 16k entries”
  1. Johannes SchauerAug 11, 2015
  2. René ScharfeAug 12, 2015
  3. Johannes SchauerAug 13, 2015
  4. 1/3 t5004: test ZIP archives with many entriesRené Scharfe, Aug 22, 2015
  5. Eric SunshineAug 23, 2015
  6. René ScharfeAug 23, 2015
  7. Eric Sunshine mail delivery failureRené Scharfe, Aug 23, 2015
  8. Johannes LöthbergAug 23, 2015
  9. Eric SunshineAug 23, 2015
  10. Eric SunshineAug 23, 2015
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 28, 2015
  12. Junio C HamanoAug 28, 2015
  13. Eric SunshineAug 28, 2015
  14. 2/3 archive-zip: use a local variable to store the creator versionRené Scharfe, Aug 22, 2015
  15. 3/3 archive-zip: support more than 65535 entriesRené Scharfe, Aug 22, 2015
  16. Duy NguyenAug 15, 2015
  17. Eric SunshineAug 23, 2015
  18. Eric SunshineAug 23, 2015

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