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## Docs
Code API for libraries provided by `tar-split`:
* https://godoc.org/github.com/vbatts/tar-split/tar/asm
* https://godoc.org/github.com/vbatts/tar-split/tar/storage
* https://godoc.org/github.com/vbatts/tar-split/archive/tar
## Install
The command line utilitiy is installable via:
```bash
go get github.com/vbatts/tar-split/cmd/tar-split
```
## Caveat
Eventually this should detect TARs that this is not possible with.
@ -40,7 +50,7 @@ Do not break the API of stdlib `archive/tar` in our fork (ideally find an upstre
The version of golang stdlib `archive/tar` is from go1.4.1, and their master branch around [a9dddb53f](https://github.com/golang/go/tree/a9dddb53f)
## Concept
## Design
See the [design](concept/DESIGN.md).
@ -52,10 +62,15 @@ file (sometimes more), at least 1024 null bytes on the end, and then various
padding. This makes for a constant linear growth in the stored metadata, with a
naive storage implementation.
Reusing our prior example's `tar-split.tar`, let's build the checksize.go example:
First we'll get an archive to work with. For repeatability, we'll make an
archive from what you've just cloned:
```
go build ./checksize.go
git archive --format=tar -o tar-split.tar HEAD .
```
```
go build ./checksize.go
```
```