From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:06:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Switching from CVS to GIT
Message-ID: <uy7e4hyv0.fsf@gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710152057580.25221@racer.site>

> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:58:26 +0100 (BST)
> From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
> cc: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>, brian@dessent.net, git@vger.kernel.org, 
>     ae@op5.se, tsuna@lrde.epita.fr
> 
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > > From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
> > 
> > > For instance, I avoid starting the test suite on my XP workstation at 
> > > work: it locks up hard every time.
> > 
> > Sounds like a bug to me.
> 
> To me, too.  Alas, it works on W2k, so where is the bug?

I'm not smart enough to know without debugging it.  W2K and WXP have
different system libraries and somewhat different memory layouts.  A
bug can get away on one, but not on the other.