Re: ps/reftable-sans-compat-util, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2025, #09; Fri, 28)

> On Tue, 4 Mar 2025, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Mar 2025, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> > > Johannes, did the new version of this patch series make your life any
> > > easier? As far as I can see the conflicts in your "shears/seen" branch
> > > seem to have been fixed, and the failing pipeline seems to be due to
> > > other issues. If so, we would be able to move ahead with this patch
> > > series and the dependent fix for Windows below.
> >
> > Honestly, I cannot say whether it made my life any easier. As you can see
> > from
> > https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/actions/workflows/main.yml?query=branch%3Ashears%2Fseen,
> > the `shears/seen` branch failed to update automatically since I updated it
> > manually last Thursday. According to
> > https://github.com/git/git/activity?ref=seen, there have been 5 updates
> > that were hence missed.
> >
> > I'll try to update the `shears/seen` branch now, but I'll time-box it to
> > half an hour because I really planned on taking care of other issues.
> 
> It seems that there are the usual CMake-related breakages (not related to
> ps/reftable-sans-compat-util, but to the introduction of the
> `CLAR_TEST_OBJS` or at least the `lib-oid` addition to that). I hope that
> the tip commit of `shears/seen` that I just pushed addresses that, but I
> ran out of time to monitor this.
> 
> And there are some pretty bad `exit code 127` problems in the unit tests
> on Windows, see e.g.
> https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/actions/runs/13648196783/job/38151312208#step:5:213
> (but again, I ran out of the allotted time).