Please describe the problem.

Cannot even extract the standalone linux tarball for deployment on our processing server:

[mvdoc@rolando bin] > tar -xzf git-annex-standalone-amd64.tar.gz 
tar: git-annex.linux/shimmed/git-fsck/git-fsck: Cannot hard link to `git-annex.linux/shimmed/git-help/git-help': Invalid cross-device link
tar: git-annex.linux/shimmed/git-cat-file/git-cat-file: Cannot hard link to `git-annex.linux/shimmed/git-help/git-help': Invalid cross-device link
tar: git-annex.linux/shimmed/git-init/git-init: Cannot hard link to `git-annex.linux/shimmed/git-help/git-help': Invalid cross-device link
...
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

[mvdoc@rolando bin] > ls -l git-annex.linux/shimmed/git-pack-redundant/git-pack-redundant git-annex.linux/shimmed/git-help/git-help
ls: cannot access git-annex.linux/shimmed/git-pack-redundant/git-pack-redundant: No such file or directory
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mvdoc users 2023056 Oct 29 22:44 git-annex.linux/shimmed/git-help/git-help
[mvdoc@rolando bin] > 


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done --Joey