On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:35:23AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > The ustar format has some fixed-length numeric fields, and it's possible > to generate a git tree that can't be represented (namely file size and > mtime). Since f2f0267 (archive-tar: use xsnprintf for trivial > formatting, 2015-09-24), we detect and die() in these cases. But we can > actually do the friendly (and POSIX-approved) thing, and add extended > pax headers to represent the correct values. > > [1/2]: archive-tar: write extended headers for file sizes >= 8GB > [2/2]: archive-tar: write extended headers for far-future mtime And here's a v2 that addresses the smaller comments from René. I punted on doing something fancy with tests. I'm not opposed to it, but I'm also not convinced it's all that useful. Either way, I think it can come on top if we want it. Junio, this is the jk/big-and-old-archive-tar topic. The interdiff is: diff --git a/archive-tar.c b/archive-tar.c index c7b85fd..ed562d4 100644 --- a/archive-tar.c +++ b/archive-tar.c @@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ static size_t get_path_prefix(const char *path, size_t pathlen, size_t maxlen) static inline unsigned long ustar_size(uintmax_t size) { - if (size < 077777777777UL) + if (size <= 077777777777UL) return size; else return 0; @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ static inline unsigned long ustar_size(uintmax_t size) static inline unsigned long ustar_mtime(time_t mtime) { - if (mtime < 077777777777UL) + if (mtime <= 077777777777UL) return mtime; else return 0; @@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ static int write_tar_entry(struct archiver_args *args, memcpy(header.linkname, buffer, size); } - if (ustar_size(size) != size) + if (S_ISREG(mode) && ustar_size(size) != size) strbuf_append_ext_header_uint(&ext_header, "size", size); if (ustar_mtime(args->time) != args->time) strbuf_append_ext_header_uint(&ext_header, "mtime", args->time); -- 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