On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 11:17:59PM +0100, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > The summary of the problem is that, git-archive's "--format=tar" > option really write the pax format most of the time, and some > cross-platform archive extraction library (rather than the > all-powerful GNU tar) really does not think that's the tar format and > bail out. Out of curiosity, what is the library? Putting pax headers into ustar format has been standardized in POSIX since 2001. > Is it possible to (1) add a warning in the man-page, or (2) actually > fix the problem in git-archive ( archive-tar.c ) to generate more > conformant archive packages? That header contains useful information (the commit id from which the archive was generated). And there is a way to turn it off: give a tree id instead of a commit id. There is an example in the git-archive manpage that does exactly this already. Look for the example mentioning "pax header" here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-archive.html It might be a bit more obvious to find if we actually had a --no-pax-header option, though. -Peff -- 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