From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 19:43:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [LHF] making t5000 "tar xf" tests more lenient
Message-ID: <7vwqvrpg9o.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <50E8722B.8010408@lsrfire.ath.cx>

René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:

> Anyway, I don't think the pax headers are to blame here.  The patch below
> fixes the tar failures for me, but I'm not sure why.  There must be
> something special about some (not all!) directory entries with trailing
> slashes after directory names.
>
> Several ZIP tests still fail, however, because NetBSD's unzip doesn't
> seem to support (our flavour of) symlinks and streamed files.

Just FYI, I found that unzip that comes with base distro and the one
you can add via pkg_add (or pkgin) are different, and the latter
seemed to behave better.