From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Dan McCarthy <daniel.c.mccarthy@gmail.com>
Cc: 55166@debbugs.gnu.org, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Subject: bug#55166: 28.1; tar-mode doesn't re-compress when saving remote files
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 20:49:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y1zphwly.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAoRiOWAYrpbN-pyG=55qMHEs+eK2K=xaNt7MBv8n_1hZFaCrA@mail.gmail.com> (Dan McCarthy's message of "Thu, 28 Apr 2022 11:43:36 -0400")
Dan McCarthy <daniel.c.mccarthy@gmail.com> writes:
> dan@solstice:/tmp$ touch a b c
> dan@solstice:/tmp$ tar cf test.tar a b c
> dan@solstice:/tmp$ bzip2 -z test.tar
> dan@solstice:/tmp$ file test.tar.bz2
> test.tar.bz2: bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k
>
> If you visit that remote file and save it, the result will have the .bz2
> extension but won't actually be compressed:
>
> dan@solstice:/tmp$ file test.tar.bz2
> test.tar.bz2: POSIX tar archive (GNU)
>
> This doesn't happen with compressed remote files which aren't tar archives.
I can reproduce this problem with Emacs 29, too. (And if I edit the
file locally instead of via tramp, the tar file is saved compressed, so
it seems to be tramp-related.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-28 18:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-28 15:43 bug#55166: 28.1; tar-mode doesn't re-compress when saving remote files Dan McCarthy
2022-04-28 18:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-05-03 12:36 ` Michael Albinus
2022-05-03 18:02 ` Dan McCarthy
2022-05-04 6:46 ` Michael Albinus
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