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Re: Commit cce8d6fdb introduces file t/t5100/nul, git tree is now incompatible with Cygwin (and probably Windows)

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Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date
May 28, 2008, 09:46 UTC
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El 28/5/2008, a las 8:12, Junio C Hamano escribió:
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> Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> As this commit is part of the published master branch, I am not sure
>> the correct resolution: leaving this commit in place means that any
>> commit between it and a commit fixing this will always cause an error
>> on Cygwin / Windows. Of course, it *is* on the published master  
>> branch.
>
> Some broken filesystems may not be capable of checking out and using
> project files.  Too bad.
>
> It's not a big deal.  It is not limited to this project.  We just  
> fix them
> or work them around and move on.
>
> Perhaps we should remove the infamous gitweb/test/Märchen file while  
> we
> are at it?  I do not think the file is ever used.

I for one would love to see it go, seeing as I live in the ghetto that is HFS+ and am constantly annoyed by it cluttering up my status output with spurious content.

I understand that the reason it lives in the tree is precisely to discover problems with such filesystems, but the problem is well and truly discovered by now and I'd much rather see this kind of thing tested from within the test suite rather than every time I do "git status" or "git checkout".

Cheers, Wincent

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Message 10 of 42 in “Commit cce8d6fdb introduces file t/t5100/nul, git tree is now incompatible with Cygwin (and probably Windows)”
  1. Mark LevedahlMay 26, 2008
  2. Johannes SchindelinMay 26, 2008
  3. Mark LevedahlMay 26, 2008
  4. Johannes SchindelinMay 26, 2008
  5. Mark LevedahlMay 26, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinMay 26, 2008
  7. Johannes SchindelinMay 26, 2008
  8. Eric BlakeMay 27, 2008
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 28, 2008
  10. Wincent ColaiutaMay 28, 2008
  11. Lea WiemannMay 28, 2008
  12. Wincent ColaiutaMay 28, 2008
  13. Jakub NarebskiMay 28, 2008
  14. Johannes SchindelinMay 29, 2008
  15. Wincent ColaiutaMay 29, 2008
  16. Johannes SchindelinMay 29, 2008
  17. Wincent ColaiutaMay 29, 2008
  18. Steffen ProhaskaMay 31, 2008
  19. gitweb: Remove gitweb/test/ directoryJakub Narebski, May 31, 2008
  20. Wincent ColaiutaMay 31, 2008
  21. Johannes SchindelinMay 31, 2008
  22. Jakub NarebskiJun 1, 2008
  23. Kay SieversJun 1, 2008
  24. Wincent ColaiutaJun 1, 2008
  25. Junio C HamanoJun 1, 2008
  26. Jakub NarebskiJun 1, 2008
  27. Avery PennarunMay 28, 2008
  28. Junio C HamanoMay 28, 2008
  29. Sverre RabbelierMay 28, 2008
  30. Avery PennarunMay 28, 2008
  31. Junio C HamanoMay 28, 2008
  32. Daniel BarkalowMay 28, 2008
  33. Junio C HamanoMay 28, 2008
  34. Daniel BarkalowMay 28, 2008
  35. Junio C HamanoMay 28, 2008
  36. "git checkout -- paths..." should signal errorJunio C Hamano, May 28, 2008
  37. Marius Storm-OlsenMay 29, 2008
  38. Daniel BarkalowMay 29, 2008
  39. Daniel BarkalowMay 28, 2008
  40. Makefile: wt-status.h is also a lib headerJohannes Schindelin, May 26, 2008
  41. Junio C HamanoMay 26, 2008
  42. Johannes SchindelinMay 26, 2008

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