Re: Checksum incorrectly uses signed values

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Brendan Brewster
[off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Tomas/Junio,

Yes, that is definitely it. The referenced 7-zip thread was my own
that I tried to report today; I guess that's what I get for going on
vacation and not getting a chance to submit my report here until after
getting back :)

Thanks, this is good news. I will report back to Igor on this.

Thanks again,
Brendan

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Tomas Carnecky
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:16:21 -0400, Brendan Brewster [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Hi,

The issue, in summary, is that 7-zip was unable to untar a tar created
via a "git archive" whereas gnu tar can. It seem that it may be the
case that git is incorrectly using signed values when creating the
checksum.

Can someone please look into this and possibly redirect if needed?

That was reported a day ago and Junio already wrote a patch. See
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/199911.

tom

Pushing this to the mailing list (sorry for the top post initially).

-Brendan