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From: "David Frech" <david@nimblemachines.com>
Subject: Re: test suite fails if sh != bash || tar != GNU tar
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:08:30 -0700
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On 7/10/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > As for GNU tar, I think that this is easily fixable if you have access to
> > non-GNU tar.  We do not use tar _ever_, except for the test suite, to
> > verify that things are working as expected.
> >
> > If you could put in some time to make the tests work, that would be
> > awesome.
>
> Yeah, it would be a good thing to get rid of any bashisms, but to _keep_
> it working somebody would then need to test every once in a while that it
> still works ;)

I'll see what I can do. As I'm planning on running git on both FreeBSD
and DragonFly for the forseeable future, and plan to track git's
evolution (running stable releases if not more bleeding-edge code), I
can run the test suite every time I build a new git.

Cheers,

- David

>
>                 Linus
>

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