Re: git archive generates tar with malformed pax extended attribute
From: Keegan Carruthers-Smith <hidden>
Date: 2019-05-27 05:11:48
On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 10:13, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:
It's possible Git is doing the wrong thing on the writing side, but given that newer versions of bsdtar handle it fine, I'd guess that the old one simply had problems consuming poorly formed symlink filenames.
I agree that the reader should be able to handle it best-effort. Especially given both bsdtar and gnutar seem to not choke on it. I mentioned go's archive/tar chokes on it, so reported that issue https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32264 -Keegan