From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 07:36:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use "git init-db" in tests
Message-ID: <81b0412b0512082336i674932bapd631d559e80cad79@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v7jafcmev.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 12/8/05, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> > You do miss something. glibc will happily continue lookup if
> > git-init-db in the top of the build directory is not executable, and
> > it will take the next one it finds (and people _will_ have git-init-db
> > in PATH).
>
> And the reason git-init-db we just built is not executable
> is...?

An accident? Like a filesystem not supporting executable permission?
What is the reason to report success from the test run in that conditions?