Re: test suite fails if sh != bash || tar != GNU tar

On 7/10/07, Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

quoted

As for GNU tar, I think that this is easily fixable if you have access to
non-GNU tar.  We do not use tar _ever_, except for the test suite, to
verify that things are working as expected.

If you could put in some time to make the tests work, that would be
awesome.

Yeah, it would be a good thing to get rid of any bashisms, but to _keep_
it working somebody would then need to test every once in a while that it
still works ;)

I'll see what I can do. As I'm planning on running git on both FreeBSD
and DragonFly for the forseeable future, and plan to track git's
evolution (running stable releases if not more bleeding-edge code), I
can run the test suite every time I build a new git.

Cheers,

- David

                Linus

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