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bug#19481: new tar-header-extractable-p, to use in tar-untar-buffer
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Ivan Shmakov |
Subject: |
bug#19481: new tar-header-extractable-p, to use in tar-untar-buffer |
Date: |
Sat, 07 Feb 2015 20:10:41 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>>>> From: Ivan Shmakov Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 11:05:48 +0000
[…]
>>> Can we have a test suite for this file,
>> Which of the two? (Or three, to count the .tar file produced by
>> $ git archive.)
> I meant tar-mode.el, and specifically where the new function is used.
ACK. How do I provide a sample .tar file to use in the test?
>> FTR, the two changes I suggest are not /inter/dependent, so I intend
>> to push them as two separate commits.
> Does the tar-header-extractable-p function make any sense without its
> use in package.el? If so, then yes, these should be 2 separate
> commits.
I believe that this function may indeed be useful to any
third-party code which needs to examine a Tar file before
passing it to tar-untar-buffer. Also, the changes suggested
make it easier to use the latter to extract only the members
matching specific (i. e., defined by the caller) criteria.
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- bug#19481: new tar-header-extractable-p, to use in tar-untar-buffer,
Ivan Shmakov <=