--- On Thu, 4/8/11, René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <snipped> > Ah, here it is: > > https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/utils/R/tar.R > > It's the ctype handling in function untar2 that rejects > unknown entry types. > > For reference, the documentation of the pax format > including a > suggestion to treat unknown types like regular files can be > found here > (search for "typename"): > > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/pax.html > > > I think I tried the tree example and the R code also > didn't like it > > much... may be I'll give it another try. > > Did you try adding a ":" to the tree argument, e.g. this: > > $ git archive HEAD: > > instead of this? > > $ git archive HEAD > > René That's better! With a HEAD: , that code does a lot of: Warning in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir) : checksum error for entry 'file...' for each file it tries to extract, but at least it is extracting the files. I wasn't entirely sure about the notation used in the man page - is "v1.4.0^{tree}" same as "v1.4.0:" ? "HEAD:" is clearer, as most people has a HEAD... -- 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