This web page: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/tree/NEWS?id=release_1_27
has a link to this: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/plain/NEWS?id=release_1_27 The latter web page should exist, but doesn't. Is there something busted with git.savannah.gnu.org, or with GNU Tar, or what?