From: David Frech Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:08:30 GMT Subject: Re: test suite fails if sh != bash || tar != GNU tar Message-ID: <7154c5c60707102108g59280301pa5c3c0dc3911753d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 7/10/07, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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 > -- If I have not seen farther, it is because I have stood in the footsteps of giants.