From: "James Liu" <james@jamesliu.io>
To: "Patrick Steinhardt" <ps@pks.im>, <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Taylor Blau" <me@ttaylorr.com>,
"Eric Sunshine" <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] t1401: make invocation of tar(1) work with Win32-provided one
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 16:58:29 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D4X00LKYK3TS.3DS67LXPIT9GU@jamesliu.io> (raw)
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-16 5:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-14 12:21 [PATCH 00/10] Platform compatibility fixes Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-14 12:21 ` [PATCH 01/10] t/test-lib: fix quoting of TEST_RESULTS_SAN_FILE Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-14 22:00 ` Taylor Blau
2024-10-14 12:21 ` [PATCH 02/10] t/test-lib: wire up NO_ICONV prerequisite Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-14 12:21 ` [PATCH 03/10] t/lib-gitweb: test against the build version of gitweb Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-14 22:06 ` Taylor Blau
2024-10-15 11:36 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-14 12:21 ` [PATCH 04/10] t/lib-gpg: fix setup of GNUPGHOME in MinGW Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-14 22:07 ` Taylor Blau
2024-10-14 12:21 ` [PATCH 05/10] t1401: make invocation of tar(1) work with Win32-provided one Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-14 23:23 ` Eric Sunshine
2024-10-15 0:29 ` Taylor Blau
2024-10-14 12:21 ` [PATCH 06/10] t3404: work around platform-specific behaviour on macOS 10.15 Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-14 12:21 ` [PATCH 07/10] t5500, t5601: skip tests which exercise paths with '[::1]' on Cygwin Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-14 22:10 ` Taylor Blau
2024-10-14 12:21 ` [PATCH 08/10] t7300: work around platform-specific behaviour with long paths on MinGW Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-14 12:21 ` [PATCH 09/10] builtin/credential-cache: fix missing parameter for stub function Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-14 22:12 ` Taylor Blau
2024-10-14 12:21 ` [PATCH 10/10] http: fix build error on FreeBSD Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-14 22:14 ` Taylor Blau
2024-10-15 11:44 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-15 11:45 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] Platform compatibility fixes Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-15 11:45 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] t/test-lib: fix quoting of TEST_RESULTS_SAN_FILE Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-15 11:45 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] t/test-lib: wire up NO_ICONV prerequisite Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-15 23:53 ` Taylor Blau
2024-10-16 3:57 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16 20:59 ` Taylor Blau
2024-10-16 21:02 ` Taylor Blau
2024-10-17 4:03 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-15 11:45 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] t/lib-gitweb: test against the build version of gitweb Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-15 11:45 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] t/lib-gpg: fix setup of GNUPGHOME in MinGW Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16 5:59 ` James Liu
2024-10-15 11:45 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] t1401: make invocation of tar(1) work with Win32-provided one Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16 5:58 ` James Liu [this message]
2024-10-15 11:45 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] t3404: work around platform-specific behaviour on macOS 10.15 Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16 6:02 ` James Liu
2024-10-15 11:45 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] t5500, t5601: skip tests which exercise paths with '[::1]' on Cygwin Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-15 11:45 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] t7300: work around platform-specific behaviour with long paths on MinGW Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16 6:35 ` James Liu
2024-10-16 8:27 ` James Liu
2024-10-15 11:45 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] builtin/credential-cache: fix missing parameter for stub function Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-15 11:45 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] http: fix build error on FreeBSD Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16 8:12 ` [PATCH v3 00/10] Platform compatibility fixes Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16 8:12 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] t/test-lib: fix quoting of TEST_RESULTS_SAN_FILE Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16 8:12 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] t/test-lib: wire up NO_ICONV prerequisite Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-17 1:10 ` brian m. carlson
2024-10-17 4:03 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-25 18:32 ` Josh Steadmon
2024-10-28 5:14 ` [PATCH] t6006: fix prereq handling with `test_format ()` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-28 17:48 ` Taylor Blau
2024-10-16 8:12 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] t/lib-gitweb: test against the build version of gitweb Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16 8:12 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] t/lib-gpg: fix setup of GNUPGHOME in MinGW Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16 8:13 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] t1401: make invocation of tar(1) work with Win32-provided one Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16 8:13 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] t3404: work around platform-specific behaviour on macOS 10.15 Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16 8:13 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] t5500, t5601: skip tests which exercise paths with '[::1]' on Cygwin Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16 8:13 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] t7300: work around platform-specific behaviour with long paths on MinGW Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16 8:13 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] builtin/credential-cache: fix missing parameter for stub function Patrick Steinhardt
2024-10-16 8:13 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] http: fix build error on FreeBSD Patrick Steinhardt
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