Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2012, #09; Mon, 29)

From: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Nov 10, 2012, 18:33 UTC
Message-ID: <509E9E02.3000500@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20121104122926.GD336@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:

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> On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 09:33:14PM +0000, Ramsay Jones wrote:
> 
>> (Linux is my main platform, but I like to keep cygwin working because it has
>> kept me sane on Windows ever since (about) 1995 ...)
>> "Stranger in a strange land" ;-)
> 
> I used a different trick around the same time to keep me sane from
> Windows, but I think it involved "dd" and "/dev/zero"...

;-) That's a solution I would have been keen to try, but my employer at the time would not have liked that idea ...

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>> This patch fixes the test for me.
> 
> Great. I was guessing blindly when I wrote it, but having seen the perl
> bug above, it all makes sense.
> 
> We should probably wrap it. I'm planning to queue this on top of Chris's
> patch:

Unfortunately, I haven't had time yet to test this patch. (Early this week, I went into hospital for a "minor" surgical procedure - I have not yet fully recovered). The patch looks good and I don't anticipate any problems. I will hopefully test it soon (I see it's in pu now) and let you know.

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ATB, Ramsay Jones