{"thread":{"id":"26053","subject":"[PATCH 0/14] misc test-suite patches","startedAt":"2010-12-14T18:17:37Z","lastAt":"2010-12-18T20:08:48Z","messageCount":3,"participants":["Ramsay Jones","Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":14},"messages":[{"id":"158065","messageId":"4D07B4C1.2050007@ramsay1.demon.co.uk","threadId":"26053","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[PATCH 0/14] misc test-suite patches","fromName":"Ramsay Jones","fromEmail":"ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk","sentAt":"2010-12-14T18:17:37Z","receivedAt":"2010-12-14T18:17:37Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/33702710?v=4"},"body":"Hi Junio,\n\nI've had many of these test-suite related patches lying around for\na while, so I'm passing these along now in the hope I can remove\nsome old branches...\n\n[PATCH 01/14] t3600-rm.sh: Don't pass a non-existent prereq to test #15\n[PATCH 02/14] t9142: Move call to start_httpd into the setup test\n[PATCH 03/14] lib-git-svn.sh: Avoid setting web server variables unnecessarily\n[PATCH 04/14] lib-git-svn.sh: Add check for missing mod_dav_svn module\n[PATCH 05/14] lib-git-svn.sh: Add check for mis-configured web server variables\n[PATCH 06/14] t9501-*.sh: Fix a test failure on Cygwin\n[PATCH 07/14] t7800-difftool.sh: Fix a test failure on Cygwin\n[PATCH 08/14] help.c: Fix detection of custom merge strategy on cygwin\n[PATCH 09/14] t1301-*.sh: Fix the 'forced modes' test on cygwin\n[PATCH 10/14] t6038-*.sh: Pass the -b (--binary) option to sed on cygwin\n[PATCH 11/14] t3032-*.sh: Pass the -b (--binary) option to sed on cygwin\n[PATCH 12/14] t3032-*.sh: Do not strip CR from line-endings while grepping on MinGW\n[PATCH 13/14] t4135-*.sh: Skip the \"backslash\" tests on cygwin\n[PATCH 14/14] t{3032,6038}-*.sh: Allow SED_BIN_OPT to override the -b sed option\n\nThese patches don't really have too much in common, well 2-5 and 10-12 are\nsomewhat related, other than fixing tests! (These were mostly done on Linux\nand Cygwin but, since I also test on MinGW, one or two are just for MinGW)\n\nATB,\nRamsay Jones\n"},{"id":"158086","messageId":"7v4oagt9zu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"26053","inReplyTo":"4D07B4C1.2050007@ramsay1.demon.co.uk","subject":"Re: [PATCH 0/14] misc test-suite patches","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2010-12-14T19:44:37Z","receivedAt":"2010-12-14T19:44:37Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> writes:\n\n> I've had many of these test-suite related patches lying around for\n> a while, so I'm passing these along now in the hope I can remove\n> some old branches...\n\nThanks.\n\n> [PATCH 08/14] help.c: Fix detection of custom merge strategy on cygwin\n> [PATCH 09/14] t1301-*.sh: Fix the 'forced modes' test on cygwin\n\nI sense that there is something fundamentally wrong with the tricky l/stat\nemulation set-up code there, but I lack an expertise to judge if these two\npatches is going in the right direction.  Help from people savvier on\nWindows issues than I is very much appreciated.\n"},{"id":"158341","messageId":"4D0D14D0.5020809@ramsay1.demon.co.uk","threadId":"26053","inReplyTo":"7v4oagt9zu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","subject":"Re: [PATCH 0/14] misc test-suite patches","fromName":"Ramsay Jones","fromEmail":"ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk","sentAt":"2010-12-18T20:08:48Z","receivedAt":"2010-12-18T20:08:48Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/33702710?v=4"},"body":"Junio C Hamano wrote:\n>> [PATCH 08/14] help.c: Fix detection of custom merge strategy on cygwin\n>> [PATCH 09/14] t1301-*.sh: Fix the 'forced modes' test on cygwin\n> \n> I sense that there is something fundamentally wrong with the tricky l/stat\n> emulation set-up code there, but I lack an expertise to judge if these two\n> patches is going in the right direction.  Help from people savvier on\n> Windows issues than I is very much appreciated.\n\nJust as a matter of interest, since I put some extra effort into writing\nthem, did you find the commit messages to be insufficient/unhelpful/confusing?\nWhat could I have done better?\n\nATB,\nRamsay Jones\n"}]}