Re: [PATCH 1/9] git_config_set: fix off-by-two

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 30, 2018, 19:00 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqfu4h2xsl.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1803302042570.5026@qfpub.tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> What would be a *really* good strategy is: "Oh, there is a problem! Let's
> acknowledge it and try to come up with a solution rather than a
> work-around".
>
> EXPENSIVE_ON_WINDOWS is a symptom. Not a solution.

Yes, it is a workaround. Making shell faster on windows would of course be one possible solution to make t/t*.sh scripts go faster ;-) Or update parts of t/t*.sh so that the equivalent test coverage can be kept while running making them go faster on Windows.

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