From 89c3a2dfdf75fb536870e17531e6f8161fa05686 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Karen Arutyunov <karen@codesynthesis.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 18:06:16 +0300
Subject: Use bsdtar instead of tar in tests on Windows to sidestep
 msys-related issues

---
 tests/rep-info.testscript | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'tests/rep-info.testscript')

diff --git a/tests/rep-info.testscript b/tests/rep-info.testscript
index c5f2d3a..2c02c8f 100644
--- a/tests/rep-info.testscript
+++ b/tests/rep-info.testscript
@@ -132,6 +132,10 @@ $* --name $rep/testing >"pkg:build2.org/rep-info/testing ($rep/testing)"
       : dir
       :
       {
+        # Note that on Windows we still use tar rather than bsdtar here, since
+        # the later fails for dangling symlinks and we have such symlinks in
+        # this repository archive.
+        #
         tar ($posix ? : --force-local) -xf $src/git/libbar.tar &state0/***;
 
         $* --type dir "state0/libbar.git" >>~%EOO%d;
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