Re: a few remaining issues...

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 10, 2007, 13:46 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701101442520.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0701100440n6fe9e406yfe712cf236a784e2@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:

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> On 1/10/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> Well, you also have to give people at least notice _when_ the
> target should be called.

Okay. Fair enough. So maybe this is the wrong approach: maybe the "all" target should look for _all_ executables if there is a script of the same name, and in that case remove it; and the "install" target should do the same in the gitexecdir?

> > But in general, it should be fine to be called just once.
> 
> Don't think so. We still have candidates for conversion
> into C (git-checkout and git-commit being my favorites).

I was referring to

	make clean-obsolete-scripts; make; make clean-obsolete-scripts

being necessary, because the script somehow got a newer time stamp than the executable.

But yes, I think there are way more candidates, my pet peeves being git-ls-remote and git-fetch.

Ciao, Dscho