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From: Brendan Brewster <brendan.brewster@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Checksum incorrectly uses signed values
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:50:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+-ctj5tXQmeHcZ5CC74O5QSyOH1sEYTSL-f3Rcc4MtqmGnTgA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+-ctj7v2v+=Sa2A+wSieXp26Q4wgVrTJnwyCt_erfPBmpdcdA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Brendan Brewster
<brendan.brewster@gmail.com> 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
> <tomas.carnecky@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:16:21 -0400, Brendan Brewster <brendan.brewster@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-14 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-14  1:16 Checksum incorrectly uses signed values Brendan Brewster
2012-06-14  4:35 ` Tomas Carnecky
     [not found]   ` <CA+-ctj7v2v+=Sa2A+wSieXp26Q4wgVrTJnwyCt_erfPBmpdcdA@mail.gmail.com>
2012-06-14 14:50     ` Brendan Brewster [this message]

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