test-archive failing with "tar: Record size = 8 blocks"

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Fri Feb 27 14:05:26 CST 2009


On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 20:54 +0100, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> FYI: test-archive fails with GNU tar 1.21.
> 
> I think it is a tar bug, but should we add a workaround anyway?

Oh, probably. Yet another object lesson in why stable output matters.

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