Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] archive-tar: write extended headers for file sizes >= 8GB

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Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> So if anything, I would put a comment here, explaining that ustar cannot
> handle anything larger than this, and POSIX mandates it (but I didn't
> because the commit message already goes into much more detail).

That sounds like a good thing to do.  Not everybody runs "blame" to
find the commit whose log message she must read before touching a
line.


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