From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 22:26:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] tests(gpg): allow the gpg-agent to start on Windows
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2003242326190.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh7yd1nbh.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

Hi Junio,

On Tue, 24 Mar 2020, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
> > I fear that this distinction really is lost on anybody who does not have
> > to deal with MSYS2 on Windows.
> > ...
> > In short: I am convinced that this is a subtlety in our test suite that we
> > cannot reasonably expect any contributors other than Windows-based ones to
> > get right, and I am fairly certain that we will just have to keep
> > monitoring the CI/PR builds for similar issues and then help the
> > contributors by suggesting the appropriate fixes.
>
> IOW, this cannot be made an engineering problem and has to stay a
> black art? ;-)
>
> That's somewhat sad, but I guess we have to live with it.

I am afraid so.

Ciao,
Dscho

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> Thanks.
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