Am 23.03.20 um 14:08 schrieb Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget: > From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > > Git's own `git archive` inserts that header, but it often gets into the > way of `import-tars.perl` e.g. when a prefix was specified (for example > via `--prefix=my-project-1.0.0/`, or when downloading a `.tar.gz` from > GitHub releases): this prefix _should_ be stripped. > > Let's just skip it. git archive uses a global pax header to pass the ID of the archived commit as a comment, and for mtime values after 2242-03-16. Ignoring it in a simple importer seems reasonable for now, but I don't understand how this relates to prefixes. Is it because the header is treated as a regular file with the full path "pax_global_header" (independently from any prefix for actual files) and can thus be placed outside the expected destination directory? Thanks, René
