From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Wait for git diff to finish in git difftool Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:21:02 -0700 Message-ID: <7v4owgyp8x.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <81b0412b0904220027t7afd1ed7xc57c479ef8cdb6b9@mail.gmail.com> <20090422082652.GA32698@gmail.com> <81b0412b0904220404o30ce1413kcc4dcea1fa822841@mail.gmail.com> <7vr5zk346d.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <81b0412b0904221340o6b2f1474oed2ad12e4f68cff3@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: David Aguilar , git@vger.kernel.org, charles@hashpling.org, markus.heidelberg@web.de To: Alex Riesen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 23 06:22:53 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LwqSX-0005xN-4g for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:22:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750765AbZDWEVO convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:21:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750712AbZDWEVO (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:21:14 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:45749 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750710AbZDWEVN convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:21:13 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 677BBAD809; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:21:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 781CEAD7F5; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:21:04 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 2DA86DD0-2FBE-11DE-BF83-C121C5FC92D5-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Alex Riesen writes: > 2009/4/22 Junio C Hamano : >>> Yes, FWIW. I intentionally stopped signing off patches for >>> Windows, ActiveState Perl and Cygwin: they usually harm the >>> rest of the world, while just allowing Windows users limp along. >> >> I have to wonder if you are doing that with the full understanding o= f what >> Signed-off-by means. =C2=A0I do not think the provenance of your pat= ch is >> affected by your distaste towards the system it has effects in any w= ay. > > I'm trying to avoid being associated with development for the platfor= m :) > > Frankly, I just always forget about it. The patches to my windows > repository are mostly just hacks to either make it pass test suite or > workaround another, the platforms specific, stupidity. Not sure anyon= e > is actually interested in them (because, I repeat, they mostly hurt > everyone else, while making the platforms port "a little working"). What do you really mean? These patches add maintenance burden but its benefit nobody would care about, and should not be applied?