From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 02:13:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test-lib: try harder to ensure a working jgit
Message-ID: <xmqqtvdw79dh.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190515011851.GP3654@pobox.com>

Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> writes:

>>     This guards against cases where jgit is present on the system, but
>>     will fail to run, e.g. because of some JRE issue, or missing Java
>>     dependencies. Seeing if it gets far enough to process the
>>     "--version" argument isn't perfect, but seems to be good enough in
>>     practice. It's also consistent with how we detect some other
>>     dependencies, see e.g. the CURL and UNZIP prerequisites.
>
> Well said.  I indeed avoided putting the detail into the
> commit message because it was such a Fedora-specific bug.
> I'll update the commit message to add more details though,
> borrowing liberally from^W^W^Wperhaps stealing your
> suggested wording.
>
> Thanks!

Thanks, all.