From: James Liu <james@jamesliu.io>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 05:58:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] t1401: make invocation of tar(1) work with Win32-provided one
Message-ID: <D4X00LKYK3TS.3DS67LXPIT9GU@jamesliu.io>
In-Reply-To: <58691dd652b23f2c630eba71bb9b93700ab66a09.1728992306.git.ps@pks.im>

On Tue Oct 15, 2024 at 10:45 PM AEDT, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> 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.

Native explorer.exe support for .tar (and a bunch of other archive
formats) was added as part of KB5031455 [1] not too long ago. It just
uses libarchive under the hood, and was a huge QoL improvement for me
when I was running Windows full-time at home!

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/october-31-2023-kb5031455-os-builds-22621-2506-and-22631-2506-preview-6513c5ec-c5a2-4aaf-97f5-44c13d29e0d4