Re: [PATCH] use "git init-db" in tests

Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

Let's be reasonable. I was hoping to hear from you a real-world breakage case that I overlooked due to my lack of access to platforms you may have access to. I am not interested in a theoretical failure case discussion very much. If your filesystem does not support executables, why do you expect things to run from the freshly built directory to begin with?

Linkage error of git-init-db (or git wrapper) may leave the file created but leave that in unexecutable form, which could be a valid concern, but that would signal an error to the make during the build stage, and "test" target depends on "all" target.

And please do not start arguing that you can cd to 't' directory after such a build failure and manually say "make". You can do that without even running make at the top level and cause the same failure. I consider both of them pilot errors.