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From: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
To: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] import-tars: ignore the global PAX header
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 18:09:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fce519db-5ad4-270f-abcf-0e26549486cb@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.577.git.1584968924555.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

Am 23.03.20 um 14:08 schrieb Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget:
> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
>
> Git's own `git archive` inserts that header, but it often gets into the
> way of `import-tars.perl` e.g. when a prefix was specified (for example
> via `--prefix=my-project-1.0.0/`, or when downloading a `.tar.gz` from
> GitHub releases): this prefix _should_ be stripped.
>
> Let's just skip it.

git archive uses a global pax header to pass the ID of the archived
commit as a comment, and for mtime values after 2242-03-16.  Ignoring it
in a simple importer seems reasonable for now, but I don't understand
how this relates to prefixes.  Is it because the header is treated as a
regular file with the full path "pax_global_header" (independently from
any prefix for actual files) and can thus be placed outside the expected
destination directory?

Thanks,
René

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-23 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-23 13:08 [PATCH] import-tars: ignore the global PAX header Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-03-23 17:09 ` René Scharfe [this message]
2020-03-23 17:41   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-23 21:08     ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-23 21:50       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-23 21:05   ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-23 21:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-23 23:25 ` brian m. carlson
2020-03-24 13:35   ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-24 19:35 ` [PATCH v2] " Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-03-24 21:04   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-25 17:59     ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-25 18:43       ` Junio C Hamano

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