[🚫 Bug] running extester in git bash on windows crashes during unpack

[DavyLandman]

Describe the bug

On windows we run: npx extest setup-and-run out/test/vscode-suite/*.test.js --storage uitests inside of a bash window (both in github actions to be able to share the step with linux & osx, and to use git-bash).

But it then fails with:

Downloading VS Code: 1.75.1 / stable
Downloading VS Code from: https://update.code.visualstudio.com/1.75.1/win32-x64-archive/stable
progress: 0/157 (0%)
progress: 131302436/131302436 (100%)
Downloaded VS Code into D:\a\rascal-language-servers\rascal-language-servers\rascal-vscode-extension\uitests\stable.zip
Unpacking VS Code into D:\a\rascal-language-servers\rascal-language-servers\rascal-vscode-extension\uitests
Error: Command failed: cd vscodesrxCRj && tar -xvf D:\a\rascal-language-servers\rascal-language-servers\rascal-vscode-extension\uitests\stable.zip
tar: Cannot connect to D: resolve failed

It downloads a zip, and then tries to use tar to extract the zip.

Steps to reproduce

1. start (git) bash on windows
2. run `npx extest setup-tests`
3. see it fail

If you run it in powershell, it succeeds

Logs

Downloading VS Code: 1.75.1 / stable
Downloading VS Code from: https://update.code.visualstudio.com/1.75.1/win32-x64-archive/stable
progress: 0/157 (0%)
progress: 131302436/131302436 (100%)
Downloaded VS Code into D:\a\rascal-language-servers\rascal-language-servers\rascal-vscode-extension\uitests\stable.zip
Unpacking VS Code into D:\a\rascal-language-servers\rascal-language-servers\rascal-vscode-extension\uitests
Error: Command failed: cd vscodesrxCRj && tar -xvf D:\a\rascal-language-servers\rascal-language-servers\rascal-vscode-extension\uitests\stable.zip
tar: Cannot connect to D: resolve failed

Operating System

Windows 11

Visual Studio Code

1.87.2

vscode-extension-tester

7.3.0

NodeJS

18.19.1

npm

10.2.4

[NevEinsit]

I saw the same issue on Windows that I have to use sed and replace tar by other tools that can unpack (7z, etc.) the archive

[DavyLandman]

ps: workaround is to run setup in Powershell/cmd, and then run the tests in offline mode.