From: Ramsay Jones Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 20:08:48 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/14] misc test-suite patches Message-ID: <4D0D14D0.5020809@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <7v4oagt9zu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano wrote: >> [PATCH 08/14] help.c: Fix detection of custom merge strategy on cygwin >> [PATCH 09/14] t1301-*.sh: Fix the 'forced modes' test on cygwin > > I sense that there is something fundamentally wrong with the tricky l/stat > emulation set-up code there, but I lack an expertise to judge if these two > patches is going in the right direction. Help from people savvier on > Windows issues than I is very much appreciated. Just as a matter of interest, since I put some extra effort into writing them, did you find the commit messages to be insufficient/unhelpful/confusing? What could I have done better? ATB, Ramsay Jones