Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] t1401: make invocation of tar(1) work with Win32-provided one

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On Tue Oct 15, 2024 at 10:45 PM AEDT, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> Windows nowadays provides a tar(1) binary in "C:\Windows\system32". This
> version of tar(1) doesn't seem to handle the case where directory paths
> end with a trailing forward slash. And as we do that in t1401 the result
> is that the test fails.

Native explorer.exe support for .tar (and a bunch of other archive
formats) was added as part of KB5031455 [1] not too long ago. It just
uses libarchive under the hood, and was a huge QoL improvement for me
when I was running Windows full-time at home!

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/october-31-2023-kb5031455-os-builds-22621-2506-and-22631-2506-preview-6513c5ec-c5a2-4aaf-97f5-44c13d29e0d4





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