From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] t0000: verify that real_path() works correctly with absolute paths
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2012 22:27:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vvcfnsr3l.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vfw6ru7de.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Sat, 08 Sep 2012 21:50:53 -0700")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> (4) if it only runs once at the very beginning of the test and sets
> a variable that is named prominently clear what it means and lives
> throughout the test, then we do not even have to say "hopefully" and
> appear lazy and loose to the readers of the test who wonders what
> happens when the path does exist; doing so will help reducing the
> noise on the mailing list in the future.
Having said that, I really do not deeply care either way. If you
are rerollilng the series for other changes, I wouldn't shed tears
even if I do not see any change to this part.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-09 5:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-04 8:14 [PATCH 0/7] Fix some bugs in abspath.c mhagger
2012-09-04 8:14 ` [PATCH 1/7] t0000: verify that absolute_path() fails if passed the empty string mhagger
2012-09-04 8:14 ` [PATCH 2/7] absolute_path(): reject " mhagger
2012-09-04 8:14 ` [PATCH 3/7] t0000: verify that real_path() fails if passed " mhagger
2012-09-04 8:14 ` [PATCH 4/7] real_path(): reject " mhagger
2012-09-04 8:14 ` [PATCH 5/7] t0000: verify that real_path() works correctly with absolute paths mhagger
2012-09-05 8:40 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-09-06 21:11 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-09-06 23:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-09 4:31 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-09-09 4:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-09 5:27 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-09-04 8:14 ` [PATCH 6/7] real_path(): properly handle nonexistent top-level paths mhagger
2012-09-04 8:14 ` [PATCH 7/7] t0000: verify that real_path() removes extra slashes mhagger
2012-09-04 18:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-05 10:52 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
[not found] ` <CAGHpTB+LipLt3CgVt5O0s9xj5HHf9Y5z9QWEy+FKYH8s4O7Q2w@mail.gmail.com>
2012-09-05 11:13 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-09-06 3:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-06 5:44 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-09-06 17:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-07 1:18 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-09-05 8:40 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-09-06 22:30 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-09-04 18:08 ` [PATCH 0/7] Fix some bugs in abspath.c Junio C Hamano
2012-09-04 19:03 ` Junio C Hamano
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