From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, luke@diamand.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] Add prereq to detect OS X
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2015 11:46:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <580774DE-807D-411C-B6B4-A72D273038C1@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq612m1oay.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
On 04 Oct 2015, at 11:28, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> larsxschneider@gmail.com writes:
>
>> From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
>>
>> Some Unix tools differ between Linux and Mac OS X. Add this prereq to
>> detect OS X and handle it appropriately.
>
> If my comment on 4/4 turns out to be to the point, then we do not
> need this, I presume? In general, we really should think three
> times before adding prerequisite based on the platform. A prereq
> based on a specific feature of the platform is often what we want
> instead.
Agreed. I will remove this commit in the next roll.
Thanks,
Lars
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-04 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-04 18:06 [PATCH v2 0/4] Add Travis CI support larsxschneider
2015-10-04 18:06 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] " larsxschneider
2015-10-05 9:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-10-04 18:06 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] Add prereq to detect OS X larsxschneider
2015-10-04 18:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-04 18:46 ` Lars Schneider [this message]
2015-10-04 18:06 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] git-p4: Fix t9815 git-p4-submit-fail test case on " larsxschneider
2015-10-04 18:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-04 18:44 ` Lars Schneider
2015-10-04 20:18 ` Pete Wyckoff
2015-10-05 3:08 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-10-04 18:06 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] git-p4: Disable t9819 git-p4-case-folding test " larsxschneider
2015-10-04 18:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-04 18:38 ` Lars Schneider
2015-10-04 18:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-05 9:55 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Add Travis CI support Johannes Schindelin
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