RE: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.21.0-rc1 (NonStop Results) - Good News

["Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>]

On February 18, 2019 13:46, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > I have been wondering about the whole /dev/zero business.  Although we
> > have b46221ff ("Merge branch 'rb/no-dev-zero-in-test'",
> > 2019-02-13) in 'master', "git grep /dev/zero t" has hits in
> > t/helper/test-sha1.sh and t/t4152-am-resume-override-opts.sh, so it
> > must have been somewhat incomplete to help platforms that lack
> > /dev/zero in the first place.
> >
> > We haven't heard from Dscho in European timezone, but I'm inclined to
> >
> >  - keep b46221ff in 'master', not reverted.
> >  - apply Max's "t5562: do not reuse output files"
> >
> > to 'master' and hope that we can declare victory in this part of the
> > code ;-).  There may be fix-ups for other topics before -rc2 on top of
> > that, though.
> 
> Just to make sure you didn't miss the exchange, the above plan is still the
> latest ("Max's patch is [1]).  As I'll be offline most of the day today, you still
> have time to stop or make me change course to avoid disaster by interjecting
> (which would be very much appreciated).

No interjection expected. That is what I have been testing, so anticipate that this is correct.