Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.21.0-rc1 (NonStop Results) - Good News

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 18, 2019, 18:45 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqef852awh.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq5ztj4l3j.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> I have been wondering about the whole /dev/zero business.  Although
> we have b46221ff ("Merge branch 'rb/no-dev-zero-in-test'",
> 2019-02-13) in 'master', "git grep /dev/zero t" has hits in
> t/helper/test-sha1.sh and t/t4152-am-resume-override-opts.sh, so it
> must have been somewhat incomplete to help platforms that lack
> /dev/zero in the first place.
>
> We haven't heard from Dscho in European timezone, but I'm
> inclined to
>
>  - keep b46221ff in 'master', not reverted.
>  - apply Max's "t5562: do not reuse output files"
>
> to 'master' and hope that we can declare victory in this part of the
> code ;-).  There may be fix-ups for other topics before -rc2 on top
> of that, though.

Just to make sure you didn't miss the exchange, the above plan is still the latest ("Max's patch is [1]). As I'll be offline most of the day today, you still have time to stop or make me change course to avoid disaster by interjecting (which would be very much appreciated).

Thanks.

[Reference]

*1* https://public-inbox.org/git/20181124093719.10705-1-max@max630.net/