On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 10:47:16 -0800, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 06:46:04PM +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote: > > > >> Well, how can we help if we don't even know the limitations of that > >> platform? > > > > I'm not sure, but I think the original call for help may have been "I > > will give you shell access to these boxes if you want to play around". > > Yeah, that probably was my bad---I didn't make it clear enough that the > request for volunteer from H.Merijn was exactly that. Plus some possible help in how HP-UX is organized plus maybe install more developer tools on request. > > It seems like we could use > > > > (cd src && tar cf - .) | (cd dst && tar xf -) > > > > here as a more portable alternative. I don't think we can rely on rsync > > being everywhere. > > Thanks; I wasn't even aware that we used rsync in our tests. We > certainly do not want to rely on it. You don't. It was a quick hack from me to see if this was the only cause of failure for that test > Why not "cp -r src dst", though? -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.21 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
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