From: "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Mark Levedahl" <mlevedahl@gmail.com>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Commit cce8d6fdb introduces file t/t5100/nul, git tree is now incompatible with Cygwin (and probably Windows)
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 13:52:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32541b130805281052o2a56f00m4b64299737d27091@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vfxs2uytm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On 5/28/08, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Please learn to think before typing, let alone sending such a message to
> waste other people's time.
Phew, just mentioning Windows on this list seems to get people flamed.
Reading over my message, I'm not sure what I would have written to
have it interpreted as being negative. I was simply suggesting that
git could fail more gracefully here.
> We give the user an error message, and signal error by exiting with
> non-zero. You cannot have that path on the system, and we are being
> honest about it. It is not like we are suddenly painting the screen in
> blue and refusing to get any more user input when you try to check out
> such a tree. Which part of that is _not_ surviving?
The part that's not surviving is git-bisect, which is a valid problem
that resulted in someone asking to rewrite the history. Clearly
rewriting the history is not a good solution, thus no good solution
has yet been proposed, which is why I wrote my message.
> The system with a *fatal* error is not git but the one that does not want
> an not-so-unreasonable name "NUL" on it.
That is clearly true. But knowing that doesn't seem to be making this
user's problem go away.
> What alternatives do you want to implement? Certainly not silently
> creating "nul-garbage" file instead and pretend that nothing bad happened,
> as that would lead to madness.
If the file failed to be created (with a warning), but we treated it
as having been deleted in 'git status' instead of throwing an error,
it would work much like the case sensitivity problem: the index is
annoyingly dirty, but you can still get work done. I think that
(perhaps with a little patch) would allow git-bisect to work.
Have fun,
Avery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-28 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-26 14:01 Commit cce8d6fdb introduces file t/t5100/nul, git tree is now incompatible with Cygwin (and probably Windows) Mark Levedahl
2008-05-26 14:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-26 17:37 ` Mark Levedahl
2008-05-26 21:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-26 22:49 ` Mark Levedahl
2008-05-26 23:10 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-26 23:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <483ADA17.3080401@viscovery.net>
2008-05-26 21:21 ` [PATCH] Makefile: wt-status.h is also a lib header Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-26 21:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-26 23:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-27 13:26 ` Commit cce8d6fdb introduces file t/t5100/nul, git tree is now incompatible with Cygwin (and probably Windows) Eric Blake
2008-05-28 6:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-28 9:46 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-05-28 15:53 ` Lea Wiemann
2008-05-28 15:58 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-05-28 21:39 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-05-29 13:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-29 14:58 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-05-29 16:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-29 16:15 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-05-31 17:37 ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-05-31 18:28 ` [PATCH] gitweb: Remove gitweb/test/ directory Jakub Narebski
2008-05-31 18:49 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-05-31 23:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-01 0:19 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-01 9:42 ` Kay Sievers
2008-06-01 19:07 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-06-01 1:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-01 1:59 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-05-28 16:33 ` Commit cce8d6fdb introduces file t/t5100/nul, git tree is now incompatible with Cygwin (and probably Windows) Avery Pennarun
2008-05-28 17:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-28 17:46 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-05-28 17:52 ` Avery Pennarun [this message]
2008-05-28 18:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-28 18:19 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-05-28 18:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-28 20:06 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-05-28 20:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-28 21:19 ` [PATCH] "git checkout -- paths..." should signal error Junio C Hamano
2008-05-29 6:28 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2008-05-29 13:05 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-05-28 21:41 ` Commit cce8d6fdb introduces file t/t5100/nul, git tree is now incompatible with Cygwin (and probably Windows) Daniel Barkalow
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