From: Wincent Colaiuta Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 14:58:21 GMT Subject: Re: Commit cce8d6fdb introduces file t/t5100/nul, git tree is now incompatible with Cygwin (and probably Windows) Message-ID: <29FDE86E-5B83-4736-8CC6-9C5697B91B2C@wincent.com> In-Reply-To: El 29/5/2008, a las 15:22, Johannes Schindelin escribió: > 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