Re: [PATCH 05/10] t0301: another fix for Windows compatibility

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 2, 2025, 11:14 UTC
Message-ID: <8129143e-79fb-cadc-8f88-9c8daa73c317@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqfr9t8flg.fsf@gitster.g>

Hi Junio,

On Tue, 2 Dec 2025, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> >> In any case, a more productive than rethinking the "can we express
> >> what mkdir -m <mode>, which is a construct in a simpler world, wants
> >> to do in terms of a much more powerful permission system?" would be
> >> to see if the test linter can be taught about this particular rule.
> >
> > Seeing that this issue had to be fixed twice within the course of over 4
> > years, https://xkcd.com/1205/ applies.
> 
> It means that we are punting and are not proactively helping future
> developers who may make the same mistake, but we expect it would be
> rather rare so I am OK with us making that trade-off.

Good, then we're on the same page regarding this approach.

> But then can you dial back your condescending tone against those who are
> not as familiar as glitches in the Windows port of POSIX shell
> environment we use for tests?

Please don't read more into my words than merely a large frustration with the state of Git's test suite. It might be mostly conforming to the 80 character per line convention, yet I yearn instead for the same speed, readability, portability and debuggability that I've encountered in other projects' test suites.

Ciao, Johannes