From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:13:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-add--interactive: manual hunk editing mode
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807021412300.9925@racer>
In-Reply-To: <20080702083214.GA22301@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Jeff King wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 01:08:09AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > > So if the problem is "old perl", I don't think it is an issue. Are 
> > > there modern perl installations in the wild that don't have 
> > > File::Temp?
> > 
> > The thing is, I think I heard quite similar explanation why Test::More 
> > is safe to use when the patch to add t/t9700 was submit.  Then what 
> > happened?
> 
> ISTR the Test::More problem was reported by Linus, who is a Fedora user? 
> I tried searching for any reasonable information on which of the core 
> perl modules are installed by default on Fedora systems, but didn't come 
> up with anything useful.
> 
> I really have no clue as to what is out there, and I suspect we must 
> either play it totally safe, or push the limits and wait for people to 
> complain about breakage.

I wonder why bother trying to import things when you do not need them to 
begin with!  I mean, it is _obvious_ that in this case, we want .git/ to 
be writable _anyway_, so why not stick with a fixed name in that?

Ciao,
Dscho