From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 15:58:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Commit cce8d6fdb introduces file t/t5100/nul, git tree is now incompatible with Cygwin (and probably Windows)
Message-ID: <CB1B699D-8DC6-4FF5-96E1-072FA91F70CF@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <483D7FE9.5000207@gmail.com>

El 28/5/2008, a las 17:53, Lea Wiemann escribió:
> Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
>> El 28/5/2008, a las 8:12, Junio C Hamano escribió:
>>> Perhaps we should remove the infamous gitweb/test/Märchen file
>> [...] I'd much rather see this kind of thing  tested from within  
>> the test suite rather than every time I do "git  status" or "git  
>> checkout".
>
> I don't believe the Märchen file is actually used in any test code,  
> so removing it should be fine.  If/when we actually write test code  
> for gitweb, it seems to me that we might as well generate such test  
> files on the fly from within the test suite, rather than having them  
> in the file system permanently.

Yes, that's exactly what I intended my comment to imply. Test at test  
time, not every time I do "git status" and "git checkout" etc.

Cheers,
Wincent