From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 20:58:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/17] t0001 (mingw): do not expect a specific order of stdout/stderr
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1906192257000.44@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
In-Reply-To: <0841b134-0719-8bda-41ec-abd124157df6@kdbg.org>

Hi Hannes,

On Wed, 19 Jun 2019, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> Am 19.06.19 um 13:30 schrieb Johannes Schindelin:
> > Interesting side note: I just realized that t6050-replace.sh does indeed
> > contain
> >
> > 	test_i18ngrep "Needed a single revision" err
> >
> > so I wonder why that works.
>
> Why should it not work? If GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON is on, it pretends
> success; otherwise, it does a regular grep.

Ah, right, I vaguely remembered that Duy offered patches to do something
funny with a pseudo locale (I never understood why not go for the much
simpler ROT-13), and I guess that effort never went anywhere.

So essentially the test case in t6050 will succeed under GETTEXT_POISON
for the wrong reasons.

Thanks for explaining this to me!

Ciao,
Dscho