From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: test suite fails if sh != bash || tar != GNU tar Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:09:40 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <7154c5c60707101939sc921b07wef1d14f85086947d@mail.gmail.com> <7154c5c60707102108g59280301pa5c3c0dc3911753d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Linus Torvalds , git@vger.kernel.org To: David Frech X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 11 13:17:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I8aCK-0002f7-Ph for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:17:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759729AbXGKLR3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:17:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759740AbXGKLR3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:17:29 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:52731 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1757126AbXGKLR2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:17:28 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 11 Jul 2007 11:17:26 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO localhost) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp051) with SMTP; 11 Jul 2007 13:17:26 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+erlEtXa2etuEa2x4MytJHXszpktcac0slqLlU+s wDAOwXp3jiUmFu X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <7154c5c60707102108g59280301pa5c3c0dc3911753d@mail.gmail.com> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, David Frech wrote: > On 7/10/07, Linus Torvalds 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