From: "Magnus Bäck" <baeck@google.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>,
"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Python extension commands in git - request for policy change
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:39:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121128153955.GA26588@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s10krOPD73dL0Ancie=kussk89jK7V5adR3hw=a73CVWw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 19:10 EST,
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Magnus Bäck <baeck@google.com> wrote:
>
> > While "constant traffic" probably overstates the issue, these are
> > not theoretical problems. I recall at least three cases in the last
> > year or so where Git has seen breakage with Solaris or Mac OS X
> > because of sed or tr incompatibilities, and I don't even read this
> > list that thoroughly.
>
> Most of the *constant* traffic is about *theoretical*
> incompatibilities, how much of that are real incompatibilities, it's
> not known. _Some_ of the traffic is about real incompatibilities,
> sure, but you could count only three cases *in a year*. It's not a
> huge amount. And then, how man this year?
>
> Also, I would like references to those incompatibilities.
I don't remember the details of the Mac OS X problem, but just searching
the archives for "xpg4" revealed the following Solaris problems since
April:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/195010
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/195966
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/207944
--
Magnus Bäck
baeck@google.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-28 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-25 2:44 Python extension commands in git - request for policy change Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-25 3:15 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-11-25 5:18 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-25 8:56 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-25 9:54 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-25 11:48 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-25 17:50 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-25 21:22 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-25 21:56 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-26 13:11 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-27 7:54 ` David Aguilar
2012-11-27 8:43 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-27 9:17 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2012-11-27 10:51 ` David Aguilar
2012-11-27 22:01 ` Guillaume DE BURE
2012-11-27 15:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2012-11-28 2:09 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-25 17:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2012-11-25 10:26 ` Pat Thoyts
2012-11-25 10:33 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-25 15:51 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2012-11-25 8:53 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-25 9:53 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-25 11:19 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-25 17:32 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-25 21:43 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-25 22:44 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-26 11:05 ` Andreas Ericsson
2012-11-25 10:44 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-11-25 10:57 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-25 11:51 ` David Lang
2012-11-25 12:01 ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-11-25 17:44 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-25 11:25 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-12-11 5:44 ` Patrick Donnelly
2012-12-12 0:09 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2012-12-12 0:28 ` Patrick Donnelly
2012-12-12 0:53 ` Tomas Carnecky
2012-12-12 1:50 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-12-12 2:22 ` Tomas Carnecky
2012-12-12 2:26 ` Patrick Donnelly
2012-12-12 5:15 ` Joshua Jensen
2012-12-12 3:30 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-12-12 5:11 ` Joshua Jensen
2012-12-12 12:23 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-12-12 6:32 ` Jeff King
2012-12-12 7:03 ` Patrick Donnelly
2012-12-12 8:32 ` Jeff King
2012-12-12 12:26 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-12-12 12:29 ` Jeff King
2012-12-12 17:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-12 22:21 ` Andrew Ardill
2012-12-12 22:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-12 7:11 ` Patrick Donnelly
2012-12-12 12:43 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-12-19 2:30 ` Patrick Donnelly
2012-11-25 11:40 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-25 17:36 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-25 21:25 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-25 22:11 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-26 13:17 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-27 14:35 ` Magnus Bäck
2012-11-27 18:35 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-27 21:08 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2012-11-28 0:16 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-12-03 21:45 ` Philippe Vaucher
2012-12-04 14:19 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-12-04 14:40 ` Stephen Bash
2012-11-28 0:10 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-28 0:51 ` Jeff King
2012-11-28 1:22 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-28 1:39 ` Jeff King
2012-11-28 2:06 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-28 15:39 ` Magnus Bäck [this message]
2012-11-28 5:08 ` Joshua Jensen
2012-11-25 8:57 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-11-25 10:25 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-25 21:41 ` Krzysztof Mazur
2012-11-25 22:47 ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-26 5:10 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2012-11-26 8:32 ` Krzysztof Mazur
2012-12-04 15:51 ` Martin Langhoff
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