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

From: David Frech <david@nimblemachines.com>
Date: Jul 11, 2007, 04:08 UTC
Message-ID: <7154c5c60707102108g59280301pa5c3c0dc3911753d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707102020020.3412@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On 7/10/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

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> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 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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