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Git requires zip?

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Jun 5, 2007, 16:16 UTC
Message-ID
<alpine.LFD.0.98.0706050908520.23741@woody.linux-foundation.org>

It really shouldn't, but "make test" seems very unhappy if the machine doesn't have it, and I don't see anything that disables the tests for that case..

		Linus
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Message 1 of 5 in “Git requires zip?”
  1. Linus TorvaldsJun 5, 2007
  2. Johannes SchindelinJun 5, 2007
  3. t5000: skip ZIP tests if unzip was not foundJohannes Schindelin, Jun 6, 2007
  4. t5000: silence unzip availability checkRené Scharfe, Jun 9, 2007
  5. Johannes SchindelinJun 9, 2007

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