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

Hi,

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, David Frech wrote:

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

quoted

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.

If you want to, I can help you setting up a nightly cron job to fetch what 
is the current "next", run the tests, and report failures by email.

Ciao,
Dscho