Re: [PATCH] t: use configured TAR instead of tar

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 22, 2021, 06:46 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqk0nrqn8q.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20210522062815.17083-1-congdanhqx@gmail.com>

Đoàn Trần Công Danh  <congdanhqx@gmail.com> writes:

> Despite that tar is available everywhere, it's not required by POSIX.
> And, we're allow users to specify which tar they want to use in Makefile

s/we're/we/;

> knobs, and we prefer GNU tar in autotools script.

The last part I didn't know about---it is sad if autotools require use of gtar (but since use of autoconf and autotools is not required to build Git, I do not deeply care ;-)).

> In our testsuite, 7 out of 9 tar-required-tests use "$TAR", the other
> two use "tar".
>
> Let's change the remaining two tests to "$TAR".

Nice.