From: Keegan Carruthers-Smith <keegan.csmith@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 05:11:34 GMT
Subject: Re: git archive generates tar with malformed pax extended attribute
Message-ID: <CAMVcy0TgmWPccokMeUmaPSkj=6QhZfaACEEqoSqqqL4g3WSwSA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190524081337.GA9082@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 10:13, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

> It's possible Git is doing the wrong thing on the writing side, but
> given that newer versions of bsdtar handle it fine, I'd guess that the
> old one simply had problems consuming poorly formed symlink filenames.

I agree that the reader should be able to handle it best-effort.
Especially given both bsdtar and gnutar seem to not choke on it. I
mentioned go's archive/tar chokes on it, so reported that issue
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32264

-Keegan