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A while back, I found the following amusing comment in the source to GNU tar:[1] /* Parse base-64 output produced only by tar test versions 1.13.6 (
by carussell 11y ago
A while back, I found the following amusing comment in the source to GNU tar:[1]
/* Parse base-64 output produced only by tar test versions
1.13.6 (1999-08-11) through 1.13.11 (1999-08-23).
Support for this will be withdrawn in future releases. */
I did some digging then and found at that it had been introduced in a commit that was (at that time) almost 10 years old, to the day.[2]
1. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/tree/src/list.c?id=445293654d92a1dabb04255547730b35c5cde387#n829 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/tree/src/list.c?id=...
2. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=e4e624848b53ac02f1212af2209a63d28e40afec http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=e4e62484...