On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 06:04:38PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > I do wonder if people would complain (both with the patch above and with > > brian's proposal) that the resulting tarballs extract everything with a > > date in 1970. That's not functionally a problem, but it looks kind of > > weird in "ls -l". > > And owned by root:root ;-) Yeah, though I think it's pretty standard these days to use --no-same-owner or equivalent (and it's the default for non-root users). And ditto for modes. I wondered if there was an equivalent for timestamps. It looks like "-m" works (it just sets everything to the current timestamp at time of extraction), but I don't know how portable that is (and POSIX is no help with tar, as usual). -Peff
