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From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
To: Git Users <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: git archive -o something.tar.zst but file info just says "POSIX tar archive"
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 18:19:53 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e50a85f1-7be2-dab9-a453-fb93bdb71f3c@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

I noticed the following (possible bug?) when I tried to create zstd tar 
archive (.tar.zst) with `git archive`.

First, I created the plain tar archive with `git archive`, then extract 
and rearchive to zstd tar achive:

```
(on the repo)

$ git archive -o /tmp/something.tar --prefix=something/ HEAD

(outside the repo, on /tmp)

$ tar xvf something.tar
$ tar --zstd -c -v -f something.tar.zst something/
```

I checked that the archive was indeed zstd tar archive:

```
$ file something.tar.zst
something.tar.zst: Zstandard compressed data (v0.8+), Dictionary ID: None
```

Now I created the same archive with `git archive` directly:

```
(on the repo)

$ git archive -o /tmp/something1.tar.zst --prefix=something/ HEAD
```

But that archive info (with `file`) was something different:

```
(outside the repo, on /tmp)
$ file something1.tar.zst
something1.tar.zst: POSIX tar archive
```

I expected that `something1.tar.zst` was proper zstd tar archive, and 
not plain archive like above.

-- 
An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara

             reply	other threads:[~2021-10-10 11:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-10 11:19 Bagas Sanjaya [this message]
2021-10-10 11:40 ` git archive -o something.tar.zst but file info just says "POSIX tar archive" SZEDER Gábor
2021-10-11  6:43   ` Bagas Sanjaya

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