On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:08:14AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > Attached. > > So, this is with the current unpatched pristine-tar: > > joey@gnu:~/tmp/x/foo>pristine-tar gendelta ~/foo.tar.gz ../delta > joey@gnu:~/tmp/x/foo>pristine-tar gentar ../delta ../foo.tar.gz > joey@gnu:~/tmp/x/foo>echo $? > 0 > > Do you have a test case where the current one actually fails? > AIUI, I knew that the code didn't always match up files in the directory > with the tar manifest (though perhaps I didn't know about this reason > for it to fail), and so I added fallback code. That fallback code might > result in larger deltas, but it seems to work.
Yeah, try using that tarball with git import-orig --pristine-tar. The problem really stems from trying to re-create all the empty directories that can't be tracked by git. > (I am glad to see that your patch keeps deltas produced with the old > method working. I thought it might break them.) -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
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