Re: tar commit header names

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, René Scharfe wrote:

Daniel Barkalow schrieb:

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I'm entirely ignorant of pax header stuff, but would it be possible to 
have the pax header specify which project this commit is from (which has 
to come from a git-archive option, clearly).

Technically, yes.  The commit ID is stored in a comment, more info could
appended to it.  Adding more stuff there would necessitate an ordering
scheme, though.  I'm not sure this is useful enough.  There already is a
nice convention on where to store the project name, description and URL:
in a file named 'README'. :)

Ah, and the comment applies until the next comment, so the common prefix 
of the files in the area with the comment explains it. I was missing what 
the rules for regions of applicability of pax global headers are. Now, if 
I could convince... something... to report what comments apply to what 
files, I'd be set. And that's clearly beyond the scope of git. (Although 
maybe git-get-... should know how to invoke some other utility on a 
multiple-project archive once some such tool is known.)

	-Daniel
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