Re: [PATCH 2/2] t8005: convert CP1251 character set to ISO8859-5

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>   t3900 - still problems in the eucJP test. I haven't looked closely,
>           but my understanding is that this might need extra language
>           packs installed (I know virtually nothing about Solaris
>           administration and the box is not mine).

I think I know about this one.

    From:	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
    Subject: [PATCH] t3900: ISO-2022-JP has more than one popular variants
    Date:	Tue, 12 May 2009 02:29:10 -0700
    Message-ID: <7vljp28yah.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

   I had to "pkg install lang-support-japanese" to pass this test.

>   t8005 - git produces incorrect (or at least not expected) results for
>           the iso8859-5 to sjis conversion. It all looks like control
>           characters to me, so I'm not sure how to diagnose (and it may
>           just be an installation issue again).

I haven't looked at this myself, but I've seen this consistently fail.

>   t4116,t5000,t5001 - Solaris tar doesn't like pax headers that
>                       git-archive generates

I think I force it to use gtar.