From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-add--interactive: manual hunk editing mode Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:13:53 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <20080701101114.GA6379@sigill.intra.peff.net> <1214912674-9443-1-git-send-email-trast@student.ethz.ch> <7v7ic4hmj5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080702080200.GA21367@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7vd4lwemja.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080702083214.GA22301@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , Thomas Rast , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 02 15:17:21 2008 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 1KE2Ct-0001Un-NF for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:17:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753353AbYGBNPu (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2008 09:15:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753187AbYGBNPt (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2008 09:15:49 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:34788 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752185AbYGBNPt (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2008 09:15:49 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 02 Jul 2008 13:15:46 -0000 Received: from grape.st-and.ac.uk (EHLO grape.st-and.ac.uk) [138.251.155.28] by mail.gmx.net (mp005) with SMTP; 02 Jul 2008 15:15:47 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+gOxYPfoOgj0ou2etk3thEAARS+k7huYPmS6G0Wa ZxT18IW0y+/6uz X-X-Sender: gene099@racer In-Reply-To: <20080702083214.GA22301@sigill.intra.peff.net> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.65 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Jeff King wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 01:08:09AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > So if the problem is "old perl", I don't think it is an issue. Are > > > there modern perl installations in the wild that don't have > > > File::Temp? > > > > The thing is, I think I heard quite similar explanation why Test::More > > is safe to use when the patch to add t/t9700 was submit. Then what > > happened? > > ISTR the Test::More problem was reported by Linus, who is a Fedora user? > I tried searching for any reasonable information on which of the core > perl modules are installed by default on Fedora systems, but didn't come > up with anything useful. > > I really have no clue as to what is out there, and I suspect we must > either play it totally safe, or push the limits and wait for people to > complain about breakage. I wonder why bother trying to import things when you do not need them to begin with! I mean, it is _obvious_ that in this case, we want .git/ to be writable _anyway_, so why not stick with a fixed name in that? Ciao, Dscho