Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] archive-tar: write extended headers for file sizes >= 8GB

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 24, 2016, 19:45 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqfus2fk1q.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160624191044.GB32118@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> So if anything, I would put a comment here, explaining that ustar cannot
> handle anything larger than this, and POSIX mandates it (but I didn't
> because the commit message already goes into much more detail).

That sounds like a good thing to do. Not everybody runs "blame" to find the commit whose log message she must read before touching a line.

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