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Re: [PATCH] svnrdump_sim: start the script with /usr/bin/env python

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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 28, 2012, 21:32 UTC
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> ...
>>> You need a fix for that; didn't I already say "you need a bit more
>>> than that"?
>>
>> I disagree. Most of the contrib scripts are expected to be used as
>> they are.
>
> You are only looking at one of the uses for this script, when there
> are two.
>
> You are correct that distros may install with whatever tweaks of
> their own, and to help their tweak process (like the one that
> specifically notices "/usr/bin/env python" as you wrote), changing
> the "#!/usr/bin/python" to match others would be a good change.
>
> But that change alone is not sufficient for this one, which is used
> from t/ script.  You cannot treat this one like import-zips and
> hg-to-git that we do not use in-tree.  Somewhere before t9020 uses
> it, it needs the treatment similar to the rewriting that is done for
> git-p4.py to git-p4.

Unless the tests are moved to contrib, which I think is a good practice: should anything in contrib break 'make test'? I don't think so.

Cheers.
-- 
Felipe Contreras
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  1. svnrdump_sim: start the script with /usr/bin/env pythonChristian Couder, Nov 28, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 28, 2012
  3. Felipe ContrerasNov 28, 2012
  4. Christian CouderNov 28, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoNov 28, 2012
  6. Felipe ContrerasNov 28, 2012
  7. Junio C HamanoNov 28, 2012
  8. Felipe ContrerasNov 28, 2012

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