Hi Peff, sorry for the very, very late reply. On Thu, 30 Jun 2016, Jeff King wrote: > The ustar format only has room for 11 (or 12, depending on > some implementations) octal digits for the size and mtime of > each file. For values larger than this, we have to add pax > extended headers to specify the real data, and git does not > yet know how to do so. > > [...] > t/t5000/19f9c8273ec45a8938e6999cb59b3ff66739902a | Bin 0 -> 2048 bytes It appears that this blob cannot be read when sizeof(unsigned long) == 4. This happens to break the t5000 test on Windows, where that comparison holds true. I am sure that I missed some other discussion about this issue... could you point me to it? Ciao, Dscho -- 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