Re: [PATCH 05/10] t1401: make invocation of tar(1) work with Win32-provided one

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Oct 14, 2024, 23:23 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cS4X=sX84XOoNiw7jVO5Gaze-155Gcd6sO-UzyFXZ1Z3A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <d082cd92af36610af24985ef2279c4176b1f182f.1728906490.git.ps@pks.im>

On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 8:21 AM Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> wrote:

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> Windows nowadays provides a tar(1) binary in "C:\Windows\system32". This
> version of tar(1) doesn't seem to handle the case where directory paths
> end with a trailing forward slash. And as we do that in t1401 the result
> is that the test fails.
>
> Drop the trailing slash. Other tests that use tar(1) work alright, this
> is the only instance where it has been failing.
> ---

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