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Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] Add prereq to detect OS X

From
Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 4, 2015, 18:46 UTC
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On 04 Oct 2015, at 11:28, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> larsxschneider@gmail.com writes:
> 
>> From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
>> 
>> Some Unix tools differ between Linux and Mac OS X. Add this prereq to
>> detect OS X and handle it appropriately.
> 
> If my comment on 4/4 turns out to be to the point, then we do not
> need this, I presume?  In general, we really should think three
> times before adding prerequisite based on the platform.  A prereq
> based on a specific feature of the platform is often what we want
> instead.
Agreed. I will remove this commit in the next roll.

Thanks, Lars

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Message 6 of 16 in “Add Travis CI support”
  1. 0/4 Add Travis CI supportlarsxschneider@gmail.com, Oct 4, 2015
  2. 1/4 Add Travis CI supportlarsxschneider@gmail.com, Oct 4, 2015
  3. Johannes SchindelinOct 5, 2015
  4. 2/4 Add prereq to detect OS Xlarsxschneider@gmail.com, Oct 4, 2015
  5. Junio C HamanoOct 4, 2015
  6. Lars SchneiderOct 4, 2015
  7. 3/4 git-p4: Fix t9815 git-p4-submit-fail test case on OS Xlarsxschneider@gmail.com, Oct 4, 2015
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 4, 2015
  9. Lars SchneiderOct 4, 2015
  10. Pete WyckoffOct 4, 2015
  11. Torsten BögershausenOct 5, 2015
  12. 4/4 git-p4: Disable t9819 git-p4-case-folding test on OS Xlarsxschneider@gmail.com, Oct 4, 2015
  13. Junio C HamanoOct 4, 2015
  14. Lars SchneiderOct 4, 2015
  15. Junio C HamanoOct 4, 2015
  16. Johannes SchindelinOct 5, 2015

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