Re: reversion in GIT_COMMON_DIR refs path

From: Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
Date: May 16, 2017, 17:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20170516175906.hdwn4x5md7dj7fo3@kitenet.net>
In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX5AgdMTceBAVftNp0goHpf2-hqx8GzvJshx2n1FtCGsBw@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> wrote:
> > Bisecting this test suite failure
> > https://git-annex.branchable.com/git-annex_in_nixpkgs_fails_with_git-2.13.0/
> > I landed on commit f57f37e2e1bf11ab4cdfd221ad47e961ba9353a0 to git.
> 
> That links's broken for me. Looking at your wiki it looks like you
> mean: https://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/git-annex_in_nixpkgs_fails_with_git-2.13.0/

Thanks for correcting that

> I have no idea what this bug is about, but side-question: It looks
> like this is git-annex's own test suite that's failing with 2.13.0, is
> that right?

Yes indeed.

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> It would be very nice to have a test in git itself to test with
> git-annex. I.e. some optional test that just pulls down the latest
> git-annex release & runs its tests against the git we're building.
> 
> Thanks for annex b.t.w., I use it a lot.

If the git devs are ok with this, I certianly would be happy if such tests were run, at least occasionally, on the git side!

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