Re: [PATCH] Use find instead of perl in t5000 to get file modification time

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 1, 2008, 00:23 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0811010121570.22125@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20081031233736.GB21997@steel.home>

Hi,

On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Alex Riesen wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin, Fri, Oct 31, 2008 23:14:59 +0100:
> 
> > On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Alex Riesen wrote:
> > 
> > > ActiveState Perl on Windows is portable? To another windows, maybe.
> > 
> > /me wonders why you could not use the Perl that ships with Git for 
> > Windows, at least for the purposes of Git.
> 
> Corporate policy and very-very incompetent IT service. Besides being 
> illegal to install actually usable software, there are some of internal 
> programs which are quite sensitive to perl (any other perl) appearing 
> anywhere on disk, not to mention PATH (the build system, for one). Same 
> for cygwin revisions.
> 
> I tried using other perl and more modern cygwin, and it can be made to 
> work, but it is cumbersome and boring. And one more thing to reinstall 
> after IT wipes your computer because you've got a new disk or they 
> decided you need winxp instead of w2k, or something else... So I'm just 
> trying reduce effort I put into what I'm not supposed to do at work 
> anyway.

Well, if you install Git for Windows (as opposed to cygwin), it is minimum hassle, and Perl is delivered right with it.

Ciao, Dscho

P.S.: some guys at the GSoC mentor summit convinced me in at least trying to fix _their_ problems on msysGit, so chances are good I'll fix issues you would encounter in the same run.