From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 20:59:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] tests(gpg): allow the gpg-agent to start on Windows
Message-ID: <xmqqh7yd1nbh.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2003242043050.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

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.

Thanks.