[darcs-devel] darcs patch: fix bug in diff when no temp dir exists (and 1 more)

[David Roundy]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 10:00:16AM -0700, Will wrote:
> David's conclusion was that colons are rare enough and GNU tar is
> common enough that this dependency is safe.

Although I suppose we could either have a runtime check for GNU tar
(safest) or a configure time check for whether tar supports --force-local.
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David Roundy
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