Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] submodule: port submodule subcommand 'summary' from shell to C

From: Shourya Shukla <shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 21, 2020, 17:17 UTC
Message-ID: <20200821171705.GA16484@konoha>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqimdc9cuc.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

> I think a test that relies on platform-specific error string is a
> bug.  It's like expecting an exact string out of strerror(), which
> we had to fix a few times.

> So I am not sure we would want to butcher compat/mingw.c only to
> match such an expectation by a (buggy) test.

Alright. That is understandable. What alternative do you suggest? Should we change the check in the test?

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