From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 17:37:48 GMT
Subject: Re: Commit cce8d6fdb introduces file t/t5100/nul, git tree is now incompatible with Cygwin (and probably Windows)
Message-ID: <28EDBE43-6E55-4EC9-97C6-8AC8D949E82D@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <29FDE86E-5B83-4736-8CC6-9C5697B91B2C@wincent.com>


On May 29, 2008, at 4:58 PM, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:

> El 29/5/2008, a las 15:22, Johannes Schindelin escribió:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 28 May 2008, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
>>
>>> El 28/5/2008, a las 8:12, Junio C Hamano escribió:
>>>
>>>> Perhaps we should remove the infamous gitweb/test/Märchen file  
>>>> while we
>>>> are at it?  I do not think the file is ever used.
>>>
>>> I for one would love to see it go, seeing as I live in the ghetto  
>>> that
>>> is HFS+ and am constantly annoyed by it cluttering up my status  
>>> output
>>> with spurious content.
>>>
>>> I understand that the reason it lives in the tree is precisely to
>>> discover problems with such filesystems, but the problem is well and
>>> truly discovered by now and I'd much rather see this kind of thing
>>> tested from within the test suite rather than every time I do "git
>>> status" or "git checkout".
>>
>> Probably you are not enoyed enough to just go and fix it.
>

[...]

>
> If the powers that be will accept a change that removes Märchen I'll  
> be more than happy to whip up a patch.


Unicode normalization is tested in t/t0050-filesystem.sh, which
reports on HFS+:

*   still broken 8: rename (silent unicode normalization)
*   still broken 9: merge (silent unicode normalization)

I believe there is no value in keeping gitweb/test/Märchen for the
reason of testing HFS+, so I vote for removing it, unless there
is another good reason for keeping it.

	Steffen