https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=111909182607985&w=2

Kernel tar-archives created by git contain an extended header with the git
commit ID that was used to generate the tar-tree. If your tar is older
than 1.14 then this extended header will be extracted as a regular file
called pax_global_header. Patches should never be generated against this
file, so it should be listed in dontdiff.

https://forum.dokuwiki.org/thread/11842

The pax_global_headers are internal to the tar file (pax=POSIX). Linux tar ignores them and unpacks the tarred contents only. But I see that in Windows, Winrar extracts pax_global_header as a file.

Dokuwiki's tar also produces a pax_global_header. The posix format has to be specified, it seems, but it is ignored on Centos and produces an error in Ubuntu.

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/140254

git-archive adds a special entry to the archives it creates, pax_global_header, containing the SHA1 of the exported commit.

Hope this info helps.

pax_global_header file packaged along with contrib module releases. #55

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