Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2011, #01; Tue, 4)

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > * rj/test-fixes (2010-12-14) 4 commits
> >  - t4135-*.sh: Skip the "backslash" tests on cygwin
> >  - t3032-*.sh: Do not strip CR from line-endings while grepping on MinGW
> >  - t3032-*.sh: Pass the -b (--binary) option to sed on cygwin
> >  - t6038-*.sh: Pass the -b (--binary) option to sed on cygwin
> >
> > I don't think people on different vintage of Cygwin agreed they are good
> > workarounds---please correct me if I am mistaken.
>
> No, it was different vintages of MinGW not Cygwin. Well, to be more
> precise, it is the different versions of sed that are installed in MinGW by
> the msysGit installer. ;-)
>
> I used msysGit-fullinstall-1.6.4-preview20090729.exe to install msysGit,
> 18 months ago, and my version of sed is quite old. However, these patches
> (which were done mainly for the benefit of cygwin) were written assuming
> the more recent sed version installed by a more recent msysGit installer.
> (judging by commit ca02ad34.) In other words, the sed version on cygwin
> is new enough to know about the -b (--binary) option and so is the more
> recent msysGit installers (but I don't know exactly which version).
>
> I can use my patch #14, which you didn't pick up, to run the above tests
> on my old installation. (Johannes was the only other laggard identified
> and he claims to be upgrading soon! :-D Yeah, I should too.)
>
> So, unless Johannes can think of something I've missed, I think all of
> these commits are good to go...