Re: [PATCH/RFC] Change t0204-gettext-reencode-sanity.sh to pass under Mac OSX
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
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- Mar 7, 2012, 21:43 UTC
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On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 22:34, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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>> I think it's important to be pro-active about trying to spot >> any issues that might affect end users before they happen. > > The goal is noble, but asking the platform to perform an impossible > task and subjectively judging if the failure mode is acceptable is > not the way to do so, I would have to say.
I leave it up to you whether you want to accept the patch to remove it, but with it included we at least *know* what the failure modes are, since we get user reports about it.
That's the reason I put it in there to begin with. Because I have no idea how all these pieces play together with systems in the wild, and I'd like to pro-actively find out about that.