Re: git archive generates tar with malformed pax extended attribute

2019-05-26 Thread Keegan Carruthers-Smith
On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 10:13, Jeff King wrote: > It's possible Git is doing the wrong thing on the writing side, but > given that newer versions of bsdtar handle it fine, I'd guess that the > old one simply had problems consuming poorly formed symlink filenames. I agree that the reader should be

Re: git archive generates tar with malformed pax extended attribute

2019-05-24 Thread Keegan Carruthers-Smith
On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 09:06, Jeff King 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 rea

git archive generates tar with malformed pax extended attribute

2019-05-23 Thread Keegan Carruthers-Smith
Hello, 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