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  • Does git compiles on any system where tar is not available? :-) Commented Aug 12, 2011 at 23:35
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    @StéphaneGimenez Probably not. But it does compile on systems where tar has no --exclude option, such as OpenBSD (which admittedly duplicates pax's s option, but that's not a common tar command syntax extension). Commented Aug 12, 2011 at 23:38
  • @Gilles'SO-stopbeingevil' Good answer, I look for it for a long long time. Commented Oct 2, 2021 at 6:50