From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cloud.peff.net (cloud.peff.net [217.216.95.84]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4B9933033FB for ; Sat, 4 Jul 2026 04:47:45 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=217.216.95.84 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1783140467; cv=none; b=Zd5dtyTVApVXFIwK5p18Q7Uhmuh5nwh9KsYrvvyANKzAsvG9gKXWfth+6ybetOtScxCt4ITT6AphdOI5IBZc2JSp74OY0x1DwBrhZDascBvdAG0kOjMTzfxcOyfkrLeIvJooWNmhYHyyaS9CvlGerUsakpKX6N05r1bDquzIDDc= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1783140467; c=relaxed/simple; bh=wNnexDXo2pGdQ1Z8ZRv8WTMSf7biguaIKG6xTHw3Qbc=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=AzZr75hSIpW+guI7mQsVKhJBU37S4s4F9QosEAERBnMloiN2zT1BM4G703MEpJrXqtzIuouyFWb2Hgi2CpB0SekOyDv9uJA2+W/pnX9magve5RQ6TFoCiXYSY7dEgIBpFGcoY3TZRYjKadCYJVEUP5Ht8kZxdzN9F5WHn14b3M8= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=reject dis=none) header.from=peff.net; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=peff.net; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=peff.net header.i=@peff.net header.b=iCi2z9Wv; arc=none smtp.client-ip=217.216.95.84 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=reject dis=none) header.from=peff.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=peff.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=peff.net header.i=@peff.net header.b="iCi2z9Wv" Received: (qmail 99088 invoked by uid 106); 4 Jul 2026 04:47:43 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=peff.net; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; s=20240930; bh=wNnexDXo2pGdQ1Z8ZRv8WTMSf7biguaIKG6xTHw3Qbc=; b=iCi2z9WvGvvAG2RVpZibNOuCNcTS2VKSX0K9eNxWk9V1maWbS4hpsCuK8qQNHMv99EKm+2+LowTr64vaIjr/onLS9UZcF8NeReoh6e2GVLaOHHk7QUM5pMBKB7DM2qASl3nIU/jKeYntCXF/JUe5jB0af0c36J+udzbcAOHe1mkzJFKMae/L+mVmhwxIa++yvTADNxu9ctfS73xRafJy3wXGae/qfb0kN0XKR1fMErWKKkNKHjy9VU19jSprgOIqoC8qtEXOHraHV0UbGiMsyjQHbNdHbFwXu5qdB0XDOZA/t7a2GteBbXEprciBlOEJtgP6+AfHYoYI03Zrcs235w== Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with ESMTP; Sat, 04 Jul 2026 04:47:43 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 207679 invoked by uid 111); 4 Jul 2026 04:47:43 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:47:43 -0400 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2026 00:47:43 -0400 From: Jeff King To: Junio C Hamano Cc: "brian m. carlson" , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] t1517: skip svn tests if svn is not installed Message-ID: <20260704044743.GA2255427@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <20260316220742.1286157-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> <20260701212442.1430084-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> <20260701212442.1430084-2-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> <20260702053724.GA3437623@coredump.intra.peff.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Fri, Jul 03, 2026 at 01:36:37PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King 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