From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:43:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Change t0204-gettext-reencode-sanity.sh to pass under Mac OSX
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On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 22:34, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> 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.