On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Severin Gehwolf <jerboaa@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> It appears that Gitweb corrupts files when it is being used for >> creating compressed tarballs of sources. > > E.g. http://egit.eclipse.org/w/?p=egit.git;a=snapshot;h=6b528445c3e543688b990e0a631c5f0238b02741;sf=tbz2 > error in egit/org.eclipse.egit.ui/src/org/eclipse/egit/ui/internal/dialogs/BranchSelectionDialog.java > >> A more precise description of the behaviour I'm experiencing is here: >> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=317882 > > Couldn't you post summary of the above here? > >> Unfortunately I have no knowledge about the version in use at eclipse.org. > > It's git and gitweb version 1.6.4.4. > > > From original bugreport: > > And it built fine. Then, I tried checking out sources from command line using > the git client: > > git clone git://egit.eclipse.org/egit.git egit > cd egit > > git checkout 6b528445c3e543688b990e0a631c5f0238b02741 > cd .. > tar -cjf egit_test.tar.bz2 egit > > This should be > > $ git archive --format=tar 6b528445c3e543688b990e0a631c5f0238b02741 | > bzip2 > egit_test.tar.bz2 I did some digging and it looks like somehow those files are indeed corrupt in the Git repo and it's not a Git or gitweb problem. Thanks for responding! --Severin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html