Re: js/visual-studio, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2019, #01; Thu, 1)

> Hi Junio,
>
> On Thu, 1 Aug 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> * js/visual-studio (2019-07-29) 23 commits
>>  - git: avoid calling aliased builtins via their dashed form
>>  - bin-wrappers: append `.exe` to target paths if necessary
>>  - .gitignore: ignore Visual Studio's temporary/generated files
>>  - .gitignore: touch up the entries regarding Visual Studio
>>  - vcxproj: also link-or-copy builtins
>>  - msvc: add a Makefile target to pre-generate the Visual Studio solution
>>  - contrib/buildsystems: add a backend for modern Visual Studio versions
>>  - contrib/buildsystems: handle options starting with a slash
>>  - contrib/buildsystems: also handle -lexpat
>>  - contrib/buildsystems: handle libiconv, too
>>  - contrib/buildsystems: handle the curl library option
>>  - contrib/buildsystems: error out on unknown option
>>  - contrib/buildsystems: optionally capture the dry-run in a file
>>  - contrib/buildsystems: redirect errors of the dry run into a log file
>>  - contrib/buildsystems: ignore gettext stuff
>>  - contrib/buildsystems: handle quoted spaces in filenames
>>  - contrib/buildsystems: fix misleading error message
>>  - contrib/buildsystems: ignore irrelevant files in Generators/
>>  - contrib/buildsystems: ignore invalidcontinue.obj
>>  - Vcproj.pm: urlencode '<' and '>' when generating VC projects
>>  - Vcproj.pm: do not configure VCWebServiceProxyGeneratorTool
>>  - Vcproj.pm: list git.exe first to be startup project
>>  - Vcproj.pm: auto-generate GUIDs
>>
>>  Support building Git with Visual Studio
>>
>>  The bits about .git/branches/* have been dropped from the series.
>>  We may want to drop the support for it, but until that happens, the
>>  tests should rely on the existence of the support to pass.
>
> As of v2, the tests rely on that existence again.