Re: [regression] `make profile-install` fails in 2.10.1

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 19, 2016, 22:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20161019223840.j3lvfswazuozxkjo@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqd1iwj7jf.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 03:30:44PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> > Ouch.  Thanks for a reminder.  How about doing this for now?
> 
> And the hack I used to quickly test it looks like this:
> 
>     $ cd t
>     $ GIT_I_AM_INSANE=Yes sh ./t3700-add.sh
> 
> We may want a more general 
> 
>     GIT_OVERRIDE_PREREQ='!SANITY,!POSIXPERM,MINGW' make test
> 
> or something like that, though.

I don't think I've ever wanted to do that myself, but I can see how it might be useful (e.g., claiming we don't support symlinks is another one).

I usually just try to recreate the actual environment (e.g., run the tests as root, run them on a loopback case-insensitive fs, etc) as that gives a more realistic recreation.

-Peff