Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.21.0-rc1 (NonStop Results) - Good News

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> I have been wondering about the whole /dev/zero business.  Although
> we have b46221ff ("Merge branch 'rb/no-dev-zero-in-test'",
> 2019-02-13) in 'master', "git grep /dev/zero t" has hits in
> t/helper/test-sha1.sh and t/t4152-am-resume-override-opts.sh, so it
> must have been somewhat incomplete to help platforms that lack
> /dev/zero in the first place.
>
> We haven't heard from Dscho in European timezone, but I'm
> inclined to
>
>  - keep b46221ff in 'master', not reverted.
>  - apply Max's "t5562: do not reuse output files"
>
> to 'master' and hope that we can declare victory in this part of the
> code ;-).  There may be fix-ups for other topics before -rc2 on top
> of that, though.

Just to make sure you didn't miss the exchange, the above plan is
still the latest ("Max's patch is [1]).  As I'll be offline most of
the day today, you still have time to stop or make me change course
to avoid disaster by interjecting (which would be very much
appreciated).

Thanks.


[Reference]

*1* https://public-inbox.org/git/20181124093719.10705-1-max@max630.net/