Re: EOL conversion of files in .tar archives

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 07:15:50 +0200
> 
> Apropos: take the tar.gz file in
> <URL:http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/git-snapshots/git/git-2007-05-20.tar.gz>
> (it will be available only a week or so).
> 
> Move cursor down to .gitignore and press RET.  Instead you'll get
> Makefile, the file one line lower.  In general, on every line you'll
> get the file one line lower.
> 
> It would appear that this is packed with some version of tar that GNU
> tar can perfectly well unpack, but with output confusing tar-mode.

I rather think that the pax_global_header entry (the 1st one) is what
confuses tar-mode, because it shows after it the funny comment=XXXXXX
entry that isn't in the tarball.