From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Đoàn Trần Công Danh" <congdanhqx@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t: use configured TAR instead of tar
Date: Sat, 22 May 2021 18:58:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YKlUYKNm0V6ReJ2f@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqk0nrqn8q.fsf@gitster.g>
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On 2021-05-22 at 06:46:45, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Despite that tar is available everywhere, it's not required by POSIX.
> > And, we're allow users to specify which tar they want to use in Makefile
>
> s/we're/we/;
>
> > knobs, and we prefer GNU tar in autotools script.
>
> The last part I didn't know about---it is sad if autotools require
> use of gtar (but since use of autoconf and autotools is not required
> to build Git, I do not deeply care ;-)).
I don't believe we do require it. macOS ships bsdtar (that is, the one
from libarchive) and to the best of my knowledge, everything works fine
there.
I suspect the reason that gtar is preferred is because on some systems,
the tar(1) command is relatively incapable and doesn't support things
like POSIX tar archives or pax extensions.
--
brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Houston, Texas, US
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-22 6:28 [PATCH] t: use configured TAR instead of tar Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-05-22 6:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-22 18:58 ` brian m. carlson [this message]
2021-05-22 7:10 ` [PATCH v2] " Đoàn Trần Công Danh
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