"Miguel Vaz" <hepaminondas@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I've already googled around to see if this is a known issue, but found > nothing. Try again. git "this does not look like a tar archive" as keywords into Google spit out wagonloads of relevant reports. > When installing git, after > > ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local > make > make install [...] > (cd blt && tar cf - .) | \ > (cd '/home/mvaz/local/share/git-core/templates/' && umask 022 && tar xf -) > tar: This does not look like a tar archive To cut the search short: don't export CDPATH in your interactive shell startup scripts. It is a really bad idea. -- David Kastrup -- 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