From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 23:10:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Commit cce8d6fdb introduces file t/t5100/nul, git tree is now incompatible with Cygwin (and probably Windows)
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805270007430.30431@racer>
In-Reply-To: <483B3E86.5020100@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 26 May 2008, Mark Levedahl wrote:

> So, there is now a range of git's history that is unusable (and 
> non-bisectable) on Windows, at least from the porcelain. And apparently, 
> somewhere in that unusable history, a change was introduced that causes 
> test failure on Cygwin. Great...

Oh, for the love of God!  It is not like we will not fix this problem 
eventually!  Screwing a lot of users by rewriting history, just because of 
Windows, which we need too many ugly work-arounds in Git's source code for 
anyway, is _not_ an option.

Or would you suggest to scrap almost the complete history of Git just 
because most of it does not compile on platform XYZ, while the initial 
revision did?  Exactly.

Ciao,
Dscho