Re: a few remaining issues...

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 10, 2007, 12:21 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701101320300.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0701050327u6bf2a716s1fb38fb62e2ebb9d@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:

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> On 1/5/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> > This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, and I probably will
> > change my mind after I sleep on them, but before I go to bed,
> > here are a handful of glitches I think are worth fixing.
> 
> Maybe we should at least mention another cygwin quirk:
> cygwin (or is it its bash?) treats .exe files and +x-files without
> extension somehow stupid: it prefers the file without extension
> to the .exe. For example, after installation of git-merge-recursive
> you have the old python script and git-merge-recursive.exe in
> the same directory. Guess which one is used... Right, the old
> python script. Same for count-objects and other recently
> rewritten scripts.

I just sent out a patch in my mail "[PATCH] Makefile: add clean-obsolete-scripts target" which should help.

It might be necessary (under obscure circumstances) to remake all and make clean-obsolete-scripts again, to remove the correct files. But in general, it should be fine to be called just once.

Ciao, Dscho