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On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:05:28PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Because it's extracted as a regular file (instead of tar knowing that it's > > a comment header), you will now have a file called "pax_global_header" > > that has the contents > > I guess it will end up in dontdiff quickly :-) > If Linus accepts the patch below, then yes :-) Add pax_global_header to Documentation/dontdiff Kernel tar-archives created by git contain an extended header with the git commit ID that was used to generate the tar-tree. If your tar is older than 1.14 then this extended header will be extracted as a regular file called pax_global_header. Patches should never be generated against this file, so it should be listed in dontdiff. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl --- Documentation/dontdiff | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+) --- linux-2.6.12-orig/Documentation/dontdiff 2005-06-17 21:48:29.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.12/Documentation/dontdiff 2005-06-18 12:30:25.000000000 +0200 @@ -138,3 +138,4 @@ wanxlfw.inc uImage zImage +pax_global_header - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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