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Subject: Re: [PATCH] use "git init-db" in tests
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On 12/8/05, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> > You do miss something. glibc will happily continue lookup if
> > git-init-db in the top of the build directory is not executable, and
> > it will take the next one it finds (and people _will_ have git-init-db
> > in PATH).
>
> And the reason git-init-db we just built is not executable
> is...?

An accident? Like a filesystem not supporting executable permission?
What is the reason to report success from the test run in that conditions?