Re: test suite fails if sh != bash || tar != GNU tar

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, David Frech wrote:

> 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.

If you want to, I can help you setting up a nightly cron job to fetch what 
is the current "next", run the tests, and report failures by email.

Ciao,
Dscho