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From: Keegan Carruthers-Smith <keegan.csmith@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git archive generates tar with malformed pax extended attribute
Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 09:35:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMVcy0ThtcDNjqat0+nQ4B91hC30NTUe=RW8v9WDxA2Q-4SyRA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190524070644.GF25694@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 09:06, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 08:45:23AM +0200, Keegan Carruthers-Smith wrote:
>
> > git archive can generate a malformed tar archive. bsdtar reports the
> > error "tar: Ignoring malformed pax extended attribute" when reading
> > the archive. Go's "tar/archive" package also reports the error
> > "archive/tar: invalid tar header". However, BusyBox's tar does not
> > report the error (unsure if it just has less error logging).
> >
> > I can reproduce this when generating the tar on linux and mac. I
> > tested this with "git version 2.21.0" and a build of next I did today:
> > "git version 2.22.0.rc1.257.g3120a18244"
> >
> > Reproduction:
> >
> >   $ git clone https://github.com/SSW-SCIENTIFIC/NNDD.git
> >   $ cd NNDD
> >   $ git archive --format tar c21b98da2ca7f007230e696b2eda5da6589fe137
> > | tar tf - > /dev/null
> >   tar: Ignoring malformed pax extended attribute
> >   tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
>
> I can't reproduce on Linux, using GNU tar (1.30) nor with bsdtar 3.3.3
> (from Debian's bsdtar package). What does your "tar --version" say?

bsdtar 2.8.3 - libarchive 2.8.3

> Git does write a pax header with the commit id in it as a comment.
> Presumably that's what it's complaining about (but it is not malformed
> according to any tar I've tried). If you feed git-archive a tree rather
> than a commit, that is omitted. What does:
>
>   git archive --format tar c21b98da2^{tree} | tar tf - >/dev/null
>
> say? If it doesn't complain, then we know it's indeed the pax comment
> field.

It also complains

  $ git archive --format tar c21b98da2^{tree} | tar tf - >/dev/null
  tar: Ignoring malformed pax extended attribute
  tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

Some more context: I work at Sourcegraph.com We mirror a lot of repos
from github.com. We usually interact with a working copy by running
git archive on it in our infrastructure. This is the first repository
that I have noticed which produces this error. An interesting thing to
note is the commit metadata contains a lot of non-ascii text which was
my guess at what my be tripping up the tar creation.

Keegan

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-24  7:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-24  6:45 git archive generates tar with malformed pax extended attribute Keegan Carruthers-Smith
2019-05-24  7:06 ` Jeff King
2019-05-24  7:35   ` Keegan Carruthers-Smith [this message]
2019-05-24  8:13     ` Jeff King
2019-05-25 13:26       ` René Scharfe
2019-05-25 13:46         ` Andreas Schwab
2019-05-25 21:07         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-26 21:33           ` René Scharfe
2019-05-28  5:44             ` Jeff King
2019-05-28  5:58         ` Jeff King
2019-05-28 18:01           ` René Scharfe
2019-05-28 19:08             ` Jeff King
2019-05-28 23:34               ` René Scharfe
2019-05-29  1:17                 ` Jeff King
2019-05-29 17:54                   ` René Scharfe
2019-05-30 11:55                     ` Jeff King
2019-06-02 16:58                       ` René Scharfe
2019-06-04 20:53                         ` Jeff King
2019-05-27  5:11       ` Keegan Carruthers-Smith
2019-05-25 20:46   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-25 21:19     ` brian m. carlson

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