Re: "git archive" seems to be broken wrt zip files

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 09:58:08PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

So I wouldn't ever have noticed on my own, but now that I've tried
github for the kernel, somebody else reported that the downloaded zip
file (seriously? the kernel as a zip file?) is corrupt.

And it doesn't really seem to be a github issue. I can re-create it
with a simple

   git archive --format=zip HEAD -o ../kernel.zip

on my kernel repository: the end result does not unzip correctly:

Hmm. I can easily replicate the problem here, but interestingly it does
not happen with sub-trees like:

  git archive --format=zip HEAD:drivers -o ../kernel.zip

Going back in history, I can replicate it with René's 62cdce1
(git-archive --format=zip: add symlink support, 2006-10-07). So there's
nothing to bisect.

Cc'ing René.

-Peff