From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ramsay Jones Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2012, #09; Mon, 29) Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:33:38 +0000 Message-ID: <509E9E02.3000500@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> References: <20121029102114.GA14497@sigill.intra.peff.net> <5092C234.9000307@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> <20121102094259.GA28414@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20121102095632.GA30221@sigill.intra.peff.net> <50943C1A.4090706@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> <20121104122926.GD336@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Chris Rorvick , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Nov 10 19:36:08 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TXFuV-00032R-RJ for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:36:04 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751942Ab2KJSft (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:35:49 -0500 Received: from mdfmta009.mxout.tch.inty.net ([91.221.169.50]:54999 "EHLO smtp.demon.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751823Ab2KJSfs (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:35:48 -0500 Received: from mdfmta009.tch.inty.net (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mdfmta009.tch.inty.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B2C112833E; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:35:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mdfmta009.tch.inty.net (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mdfmta009.tch.inty.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9355E12833A; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:35:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [193.237.126.196] (unknown [193.237.126.196]) by mdfmta009.tch.inty.net (Postfix) with ESMTP; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:35:44 +0000 (GMT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 In-Reply-To: <20121104122926.GD336@sigill.intra.peff.net> X-MDF-HostID: 22 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 09:33:14PM +0000, Ramsay Jones wrote: > >> (Linux is my main platform, but I like to keep cygwin working because it has >> kept me sane on Windows ever since (about) 1995 ...) >> "Stranger in a strange land" ;-) > > I used a different trick around the same time to keep me sane from > Windows, but I think it involved "dd" and "/dev/zero"... ;-) That's a solution I would have been keen to try, but my employer at the time would not have liked that idea ... >> >> This patch fixes the test for me. > > Great. I was guessing blindly when I wrote it, but having seen the perl > bug above, it all makes sense. > > We should probably wrap it. I'm planning to queue this on top of Chris's > patch: Unfortunately, I haven't had time yet to test this patch. (Early this week, I went into hospital for a "minor" surgical procedure - I have not yet fully recovered). The patch looks good and I don't anticipate any problems. I will hopefully test it soon (I see it's in pu now) and let you know. [snip patch] ATB, Ramsay Jones