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From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2011, #01; Tue, 4)
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 20:47:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201101082047.20446.j6t@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D28AF82.4040102@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>

On Samstag, 8. Januar 2011, Ramsay Jones wrote:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > * rj/test-fixes (2010-12-14) 4 commits
> >  - t4135-*.sh: Skip the "backslash" tests on cygwin
> >  - t3032-*.sh: Do not strip CR from line-endings while grepping on MinGW
> >  - t3032-*.sh: Pass the -b (--binary) option to sed on cygwin
> >  - t6038-*.sh: Pass the -b (--binary) option to sed on cygwin
> >
> > I don't think people on different vintage of Cygwin agreed they are good
> > workarounds---please correct me if I am mistaken.
>
> No, it was different vintages of MinGW not Cygwin. Well, to be more
> precise, it is the different versions of sed that are installed in MinGW by
> the msysGit installer. ;-)
>
> I used msysGit-fullinstall-1.6.4-preview20090729.exe to install msysGit,
> 18 months ago, and my version of sed is quite old. However, these patches
> (which were done mainly for the benefit of cygwin) were written assuming
> the more recent sed version installed by a more recent msysGit installer.
> (judging by commit ca02ad34.) In other words, the sed version on cygwin
> is new enough to know about the -b (--binary) option and so is the more
> recent msysGit installers (but I don't know exactly which version).
>
> I can use my patch #14, which you didn't pick up, to run the above tests
> on my old installation. (Johannes was the only other laggard identified
> and he claims to be upgrading soon! :-D Yeah, I should too.)
>
> So, unless Johannes can think of something I've missed, I think all of
> these commits are good to go...

I've upgraded meanwhile ;-) and have been using this branch since it was 
published the first time. From my POV, these series should go in.

-- Hannes

      reply	other threads:[~2011-01-08 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-04 23:50 What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2011, #01; Tue, 4) Junio C Hamano
2011-01-05  0:01 ` jn/svn-fe (Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2011, #01; Tue, 4)) Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-05  2:11 ` What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2011, #01; Tue, 4) Martin von Zweigbergk
2011-01-08 18:40 ` Ramsay Jones
2011-01-08 19:47   ` Johannes Sixt [this message]

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