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bug #62859: tar --exclude-vcs does not exclude .git directory when extracting

Submitter:  Mohamed Akram <mohdakram>
Submitted:  Wed 03 Aug 2022 04:06:28 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Closed
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Tue 18 Apr 2023 07:53:40 AM UTC, comment #7: 

Fixed. Thank you.

Sergey Poznyakoff <gray>
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Sun 19 Mar 2023 07:18:47 AM UTC, comment #6: 

I think proper fix is to ignore `/...' after a match with FNM_LEADING_DIR.

I will test, and, if no issues found, submit merge request.

diff --git a/src/names.c b/src/names.c
index 03457ba..08b8038 100644
--- a/src/names.c
+++ b/src/names.c
@@ -350,3 +350,3 @@ handle_file_selection_option (int key, const char *arg)
     case EXCLUDE_VCS_OPTION:
-      add_exclude_array (vcs_file_table, 0);
+      add_exclude_array (vcs_file_table, FNM_LEADING_DIR);
       break;

Anonymous
Fri 17 Mar 2023 06:41:33 PM UTC, comment #5: 

I will attempt to address this bug. WIP here https://github.com/atokama/tar

Anonymous
Thu 09 Mar 2023 03:59:09 PM UTC, comment #4: 

with EXCLUDE_REGEX option set for vcs_ignore_files, issue is fixed.
It is not a proper fix, just a demo:

diff --git a/src/names.c b/src/names.c
index 03457ba..08b8038 100644
--- a/src/names.c
+++ b/src/names.c
@@ -350,3 +350,3 @@ handle_file_selection_option (int key, const char *arg)
     case EXCLUDE_VCS_OPTION:
-      add_exclude_array (vcs_file_table, 0);
+      add_exclude_array (vcs_file_table, EXCLUDE_REGEX);
       break;

Anonymous
Thu 09 Mar 2023 03:55:21 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Bug caused

files for --exclude-vcs files excluded by filename, not by regex.

when creating an archive, when recursively iterating input directory files, excluded files are skipped.

When extracting, tar iterates over internal representation of file entries. '.git' dir excluded sucessfully, but not its children like '.git/HEAD'. When children created, parent dir created.

Anonymous
Thu 09 Mar 2023 01:05:52 PM UTC, comment #2: 

workaround:
tar --exclude=.git --exclude-vcs -xf gitrepo.tar.gz

Anonymous
Thu 09 Mar 2023 11:28:05 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Bug confirmed with tar 1.34 installed from arch pacman repository

Anonymous
Wed 03 Aug 2022 04:06:28 PM UTC, original submission:  

The --exclude-vcs flag seems to exclude .gitignore but not .git when extracting. To reproduce:

mkdir gitrepo
cd gitrepo
git init
touch .gitignore
cd ..
tar -caf gitrepo.tar.gz gitrepo
rm -r gitrepo
tar -xf gitrepo.tar.gz --exclude-vcs
[ -e gitrepo/.gitignore ] && echo .gitignore not excluded
[ -e gitrepo/.git ] && echo .git not excluded

Mohamed Akram <mohdakram>

 

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