Re: cg-export incompatible with older versions of GNU tar

Dear diary, on Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 01:23:31PM CEST, I got a letter
where Wolfgang Denk [off-list ref] told me that...

Minor compatibility issue:

The archives created by the "cg-export" command contain entries  that
cause problems with older versions of GNU tar:

-> cg-export /tmp/foo.tar.bz2
-> tar jtvf /tmp/foo.tar.bz2
?rw------- git/git          52 1970-01-01 01:00:00 pax_global_header unknown file type `g'
drwxr-xr-x git/git           0 2005-09-22 09:46:19 foo/
-rw-r--r-- git/git      134225 2005-09-22 09:46:19 foo/CHANGELOG
-rw-r--r-- git/git       15701 2005-09-22 09:46:19 foo/COPYING
-rw-r--r-- git/git        9960 2005-09-22 09:46:19 foo/CREDITS
-rw-r--r-- git/git        9578 2005-09-22 09:46:19 foo/MAINTAINERS
...
-> tar jxf foo.tar.bz2 
tar: pax_global_header: Unknown file type 'g', extracted as normal file
...
-> tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25
...
-> rpm -q git-core cogito
git-core-0.99.7-1
cogito-0.15-1

This would be a problem with Core GIT's git-tar-tree. The pax headers
seem nice to have, though.

It is unclear if the tar actually extracts the archive or not, though.
Does it just complain with those warnings, or are they fatal errors?

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