Re: Commit cce8d6fdb introduces file t/t5100/nul, git tree is now incompatible with Cygwin (and probably Windows)

From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: May 29, 2008, 14:58 UTC
Message-ID: <29FDE86E-5B83-4736-8CC6-9C5697B91B2C@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805291422210.13507@racer.site.net>

El 29/5/2008, a las 15:22, Johannes Schindelin escribió:

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> Hi,
>
> 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.

No, that's not actually the case. In reality I was pleasantly surprised when Junio commented that "perhaps we should remove" that file; I had always gotten the impression from this list that such a change would be unwelcome because it's easier to just blame the users of bad filesystems for choosing those filesystems. I also remember a comment from Linus to the effect that that file was kept in the tree precisely _because_ it helped us discover such file systems. Unfortunately I can't find that message right now but I think it was about 6 months ago.

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

Wincent