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From: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bugreport: add tool to generate debugging info
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 15:24:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190815222427.GC208753@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1908152205390.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 10:07:57PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2019, Derrick Stolee wrote:
> 
> > On 8/14/2019 10:34 PM, Emily Shaffer wrote:
> > > diff --git a/git-bugreport.sh b/git-bugreport.sh
> > > new file mode 100755
> > > index 0000000000..2200703a51
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/git-bugreport.sh
> >
> > At first I was alarmed by "What? another shell script?" but this
> > command should prioritize flexibility and extensibility over speed.
> > Running multiple processes shouldn't be too taxing for what we are
> > trying to do here.
> 
> Git for Windows sometimes receives bug reports about Bash not being able
> to start (usually it is a DLL base address problem, related to the way
> Cygwin and MSYS2 emulate `fork()`).

Hmm. In a case like this, then, how is someone using GfW at all?
Embarrassingly, I don't actually have a way to try it out for myself.
It seems there's no GUI, and users are using it through the command line
in mingw, so when you say "bash doesn't start" do you mean "users can't
use the mingw prompt at all"?

> 
> In such a case, `git bugreport` would only be able to offer a reason for
> yet another bug report instead of adding useful metadata.
> 
> Something to keep in mind when deciding how to implement this command.
> 
> Ciao,
> Dscho

Yeah, that's an interesting point, thanks for bringing it up. So, in the
case when bash won't start at all, what does that failure look like? How
much of Git can users still use? For example, would they be able to get
far enough to run a binary git-bugreport?

 - Emily

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-15 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-15  2:34 [PATCH] bugreport: add tool to generate debugging info Emily Shaffer
2019-08-15 14:15 ` Derrick Stolee
2019-08-15 14:36   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-15 22:52     ` Emily Shaffer
2019-08-15 23:40       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-16  1:25         ` Emily Shaffer
2019-08-16 16:41           ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-16 19:08             ` Emily Shaffer
2019-08-15 20:07   ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-08-15 22:24     ` Emily Shaffer [this message]
2019-08-16 20:19       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-08-15 20:13   ` Emily Shaffer
2019-08-15 18:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-15 21:52   ` Emily Shaffer
2019-08-15 22:29     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-15 22:54       ` Emily Shaffer
2019-08-17  0:39 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] add git-bugreport tool Emily Shaffer
2019-08-17  0:39   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] bugreport: add tool to generate debugging info Emily Shaffer
2019-08-17  0:39   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] bugreport: generate config whitelist based on docs Emily Shaffer
2019-08-17 20:38     ` Martin Ågren
2019-08-21 17:40       ` Emily Shaffer
2019-10-25  2:51   ` [PATCH v3 0/9] add git-bugreport tool Emily Shaffer
2019-10-25  2:51     ` [PATCH v3 1/9] bugreport: add tool to generate debugging info Emily Shaffer
2019-10-29 20:29       ` Josh Steadmon
2019-11-16  3:11       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-19 20:25         ` Emily Shaffer
2019-11-19 23:24           ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-11-20  0:37             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-20 10:51               ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-11-19 23:31           ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-11-20  0:39             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-20  2:09             ` Emily Shaffer
2019-11-20  0:32           ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-25  2:51     ` [PATCH v3 2/9] bugreport: generate config whitelist based on docs Emily Shaffer
2019-10-28 13:27       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-25  2:51     ` [PATCH v3 3/9] bugreport: add version and system information Emily Shaffer
2019-10-28 13:49       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-11-08 21:48         ` Emily Shaffer
2019-11-11 13:48           ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-11-14 21:42             ` Emily Shaffer
2019-10-29 20:43       ` Josh Steadmon
2019-10-25  2:51     ` [PATCH v3 4/9] bugreport: add config values from whitelist Emily Shaffer
2019-10-28 14:14       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-12-11 20:48         ` Emily Shaffer
2019-12-15 17:30           ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-29 20:58       ` Josh Steadmon
2019-10-30  1:37         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-14 21:55           ` Emily Shaffer
2019-10-25  2:51     ` [PATCH v3 5/9] bugreport: collect list of populated hooks Emily Shaffer
2019-10-28 14:31       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-12-11 20:51         ` Emily Shaffer
2019-12-15 17:40           ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-25  2:51     ` [PATCH v3 6/9] bugreport: count loose objects Emily Shaffer
2019-10-28 15:07       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-12-10 22:34         ` Emily Shaffer
2019-10-29 21:18       ` Josh Steadmon
2019-10-25  2:51     ` [PATCH v3 7/9] bugreport: add packed object summary Emily Shaffer
2019-10-28 15:43       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-12-11  0:29         ` Emily Shaffer
2019-12-11 13:37           ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-12-11 20:52             ` Emily Shaffer
2019-10-25  2:51     ` [PATCH v3 8/9] bugreport: list contents of $OBJDIR/info Emily Shaffer
2019-10-28 15:51       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-25  2:51     ` [PATCH v3 9/9] bugreport: print contents of alternates file Emily Shaffer
2019-10-28 15:57       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-11-19 20:40         ` Emily Shaffer
2019-10-29  1:54     ` [PATCH v3 0/9] add git-bugreport tool Junio C Hamano
2019-10-29 11:13       ` Johannes Schindelin

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