From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 06:45:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/19] mingw: skip a couple of git-svn tests that cannot pass on Windows
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1601260733290.2964@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqwpqy9ze9.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Hi Junio,

On Sun, 24 Jan 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > Some of the tests expect that executable bits can be toggled, others
> > expect that paths are POSIX paths (but when they come through git.exe,
> > they are converted into Windows paths and necessarily differ), yet
> > others expect symbolic links to be available.
> 
> These skip the tests that cannot possibly pass in their entirety by
> protecting them with prerequisites, which feels the right thing to
> do.  The "executable bits" ones would need to become !POSIXPERM, and
> symlink ones !SYMLINKS, though.

I reworked this in the same batch as the previous git-svn patch.

Ciao,
Dscho