I've rebased the 'missing-fixes' branch on latest maint, merged it, and deleted it. I'm re-sending the applied patches, for reference.
Regards, Stefano -*-*-*- Stefano Lattarini (4): missing: miscellaneous fixlets missing: if GNU tar exists but fails when called, give up missing: inform the user if GNU tar is called missing: don't try to re-run tar with a munged command line ChangeLog | 43 +++++++++++++ lib/missing | 43 ++++--------- tests/Makefile.am | 1 + tests/Makefile.in | 1 + tests/missing-tar.test | 160 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 218 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-) create mode 100755 tests/missing-tar.test -- 1.7.7.3