Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tar for the base revision

[Andrew Suffield]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:24:12AM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
> 
>     > From: Samuel Tardieu <address@hidden>
> 
>     > Isn't tar a poor choice for storing a base revision? I seem to recall
>     > that there is a 100 characters path limit or so in the tar format, is
>     > it still the case?
> 
> Honestly, I'm not sure where the standards for tar are at these days,

There are presently no "standards" for tar which are implemented by a
significant (ie, more than two) number of tar implementations.

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