From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 01:41:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] upload-pack.c: allow banning certain object filter(s)
Message-ID: <xmqqft9j3t4i.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200722201531.GA59352@syl.lan>

Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:

>> If this die() were to show the same fancy error message as in the ERR
>> packet, then it would always make it to 'git clone's stderr in the
>> tests, so the tests could reliably check that 'git upload-pack' died
>> for the expected reason.
>
> Beautiful idea. I changed this in my fork, and I'll send it to this
> thread after 2.28 is out, since I don't want to create a distraction in
> the meantime.

Thanks.  

As long as everybody understands that "distraction" will immediately
gets backburnered when a regression relevant to the upcoming release
is found, however, I think performing work as usual is a good thing.
After all, we often find glitches in the current code by trying to
build on it, in addition to using it.