Hi, The way we upload the Linux kernel to kernel.org involves creating a tar archive, signing the archive, and then just uploading the signature. The server then checks out the repo based on the tag, generates the tar archive and checks the signature to make sure they match. A few days ago I released the 3.0.61 kernel, and it turned out that I couldn't upload the kernel release because 'git archive' now creates a binary file that differs from an older version of git. I tracked this down to commit 22f0dcd9634a818a0c83f23ea1a48f2d620c0546 (archive-tar: split long paths more carefully). The diff of a hex dump of the tar archives shows the following difference: --- old_git_archive 2013-01-31 17:31:24.466343388 +0100 +++ new_git_archive 2013-01-31 17:32:21.509674417 +0100 @@ -19239998,8 +19239998,8 @@ 125943d0:0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 125943e0:0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 125943f0:0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ -12594400:0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ -12594410:0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ +12594400:7765 7374 6272 6964 6765 2d6f 6d61 7033 westbridge-omap3 +12594410:2d70 6e61 6e64 2d68 616c 2f00 0000 0000 -pnand-hal/..... 12594420:0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 12594430:0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 12594440:0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ @@ -19240025,8 +19240025,8 @@ 12594580:2f61 7374 6f72 6961 2f61 7263 682f 6172 /astoria/arch/ar 12594590:6d2f 706c 6174 2d6f 6d61 702f 696e 636c m/plat-omap/incl 125945a0:7564 652f 6d61 6368 2f77 6573 7462 7269 ude/mach/westbri -125945b0:6467 652f 7765 7374 6272 6964 6765 2d6f dge/westbridge-o -125945c0:6d61 7033 2d70 6e61 6e64 2d68 616c 0000 map3-pnand-hal.. +125945b0:6467 6500 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 dge............. +125945c0:0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 125945d0:0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 125945e0:0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 125945f0:0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ Interestingly, the output of uncompressing the tar archives is identical, so the data is correct, but the binary isn't. Now keeping binary compatibility of tar archive files isn't really a big deal, but, the commit to git that causes this seems a bit odd, is it really needed? Or can we just fix the version of tar with NetBSD instead? :) Any ideas? thanks, greg k-h -- 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