Re: [PATCH v2] travis-ci: fix Perforce install on macOS

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 23, 2017, 18:39 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqmvehsjrv.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170122225550.28422-1-larsxschneider@gmail.com>

Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> writes:

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> The `perforce` and `perforce-server` package were moved from brew [1][2]
> to cask [3]. Teach TravisCI the new location.
>
> Perforce updates their binaries without version bumps. That made the
> brew install (legitimately!) fail due to checksum mismatches. The
> workaround is not necessary anymore as Cask [4] allows to disable the
> checksum test for individual formulas.
>
> [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-binary/commit/1394e42de04d07445f82f9512627e864ff4ca4c6
> [2] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-binary/commit/f8da22d6b8dbcfcfdb2dfa9ac1a5e5d8e05aac2b
> [3] https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/pull/29180
> [4] https://caskroom.github.io/
>
> Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
> ---
>
> Hi,
>
> this small update removes one more unnecessary line and makes the
> formula name lower case (no functional reason - just looks better ;-).
>
> @Junio: Do you prefer such a v2 as "--in-reply-to" to v1 or as separate
>         thread? What eases your workflow?

It does not make that much of a difference if the second one comes within a few days since the first one but in general it probably would help if the follow-up is threaded _and_ made it clear upfront that if somebody is reading v2 then v1 can be ignored ;-).

Thanks.