From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11] Miscellaneous MinGW port fallout Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:22:47 -0800 Message-ID: <7v8x51ss3s.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1194984306-3181-1-git-send-email-johannes.sixt@telecom.at> <200711132110.29136.johannes.sixt@telecom.at> <7vlk91svgf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <200711132232.11730.johannes.sixt@telecom.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Johannes Sixt , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 13 23:23:43 2007 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 1Is4AY-0002VH-IX for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:23:42 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760718AbXKMWW4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:22:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760671AbXKMWW4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:22:56 -0500 Received: from sceptre.pobox.com ([207.106.133.20]:40517 "EHLO sceptre.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759560AbXKMWWz (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:22:55 -0500 Received: from sceptre (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sceptre.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3B8B2EF; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:23:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sceptre.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53BE29543F; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:23:11 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:46:59 +0000 (GMT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin writes: > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote: >> On Tuesday 13 November 2007 22:10, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> > Johannes Sixt writes: >> > > On Tuesday 13 November 2007 21:04, Johannes Sixt wrote: >> > > ... and so allow that the compiled binaries are installed in any >> > > directory that the user chooses. >> > >> > If you can do that without breaking the tests (specifically, the >> > test script should pick up the version of git you just built, >> > not from /usr/bin nor /usr/local/stow/git/bin) that would be >> > great. >> >> Sorry, I don't understand your statement. Do you see any tests breaking? > > I guess what Junio is getting at: if your changes could lead to our not > needing to hard code defaults, that would be awesome. Yes. Another thing I said was that it would be grave regression for testability if the change leads git to look at somewhere else other than it was told to look via GIT_EXEC_PATH environment,