Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2010, #02; Wed, 16)

From: Philippe Bruhat (BooK) <philippe.bruhat@free.fr>
Date: Jun 17, 2010, 16:42 UTC
Message-ID: <20100617164212.GG20658@swoosh>
In-Reply-To: <7vocf939vu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 09:24:21AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> > * ab/tap (2010-06-09) 4 commits
> >  - We use TAP so the Perl test can run without scaffolding
> >  - Skip tests in a way that makes sense under TAP
> >  - Merge branch 'jc/t9129-any-utf8' into ab/tap
> >  - Make test-lib.sh emit valid TAP format
> >  (this branch uses jc/t9129-any-utf8.)
> 
> I was not sure why TAP is worth the trouble, and I still am not sure.

Assuming I was on the list because I'm a Perl person, I'd say that the benefit of TAP is that there are plenty of tools that can parse it to provide nice reports.

> > * pb/maint-perl-errmsg-no-dir (2010-06-14) 1 commit
> 
> There was a comment on what the proposed commmit log message said
> regarding $!; perhaps an update is in order?

Oh, that was for this, actually.

Ok, I'll send a new patch with the discussed change.

-- 
 Philippe Bruhat (BooK)

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