Re: tar on Mac does not like empty tar from git archive

On Apr 8, 2013, at 17:05 , Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

That makes me think the latter ("we are wrong"). I don't have my OS X
box handy; can you provide a sample empty tarfile that it creates?

I created mac.tar on my Mac and linux.tar on a RHEL6.3 machine (tar (GNU tar) 1.23). Both were created with 

tar cTf /dev/null xxx.tar

Both files are accepted by tar on both the Mac and the RHEL machines. (Both files contain nothing but zeros.)

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BJ Hargrave