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/remote-git.testscript | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'tests/remote-git.testscript')

diff --git a/tests/remote-git.testscript b/tests/remote-git.testscript
index b4ed398..377277d 100644
--- a/tests/remote-git.testscript
+++ b/tests/remote-git.testscript
@@ -72,6 +72,10 @@ end
 # will use the same options as we do for unpacking of package archives (see
 # pkg-unpack.cxx).
 #
+# 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 the
+# repository archives which are used for testing.
+#
 git_extract = [cmdline] \
               ($cxx.target.class != 'windows' \
                ? tar -C $out_git -xf \
-- 
cgit v1.1