Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] t1517: skip svn tests if svn is not installed

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Jul 03, 2026 at 01:36:37PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > fed to perl (no quotes around 1.1.0). We sometimes catch these cases
> > automatically it results in an extra argument to test_expect_success,
> > etc. But here you are unlucky enough that it does not (and anyway, we do
> > not seem to have the same safety check for test_lazy_prereq; we'd just
> > ignore the extra arguments).
> >
> > And of course being perl, it doesn't complain. I'm not sure how it is
> > interpreted,
> 
> I happen to know ;-).
> 
> When you have more than two sequences of digits separated by dot,
> like IP address 192.168.1.1, you are telling Perl to interpret the
> sequence as a string, each byte of it is the number denoted by these
> digits.  I believe this was invented primarily for IP addresses, but
> it does not have to be just four digits.  To wit:
> 
>     $ perl -e 'print 65.66.67;'
>     ABC
>     $ perl -e 'print 65.66.67.68.69;'
>     ABCDE
> 
> Of course, 65.66 is not AB, but a floating-point number that is
> between integers 65 and 66:
> 
>     $ perl -e 'print 65.66;'
>     65.66

Ah, thanks. It is both exciting and horrifying that in 2026 I can still
learn new perl esoterica. :)

-Peff