From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:44:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/14] misc test-suite patches
Message-ID: <7v4oagt9zu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D07B4C1.2050007@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>

Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> writes:

> I've had many of these test-suite related patches lying around for
> a while, so I'm passing these along now in the hope I can remove
> some old branches...

Thanks.

> [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.