Re: [PATCH v7 3/4] maintenance: use launchctl on macOS

[Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 8:08 AM Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
<gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> The need for a user id requires us to run 'id -u' which works on
> POSIX systems but not Windows. Further, the need for fully-qualitifed
> path names including $HOME behaves differently in the Git internals and
> the external test suite. The $HOME variable starts with "C:\..." instead
> of the "/c/..." that is provided by Git in these subcommands. The test
> therefore has a prerequisite that we are not on Windows. The cross-
> platform logic still allows us to test the macOS logic on a Linux
> machine.

You forgot to remove the above paragraph...

> We strive to make these tests work on all platforms, but Windows caused
> some headaches. In particular, the value of getuid() called by the C
> code is not guaranteed to be the same as `$(id -u)` invoked by a test.
> This is because `git.exe` is a native Windows program, whereas the
> utility programs run by the test script mostly utilize the MSYS2 runtime,
> which emulates a POSIX-like environment. Since the purpose of the test
> is to check that the input to the hook is well-formed, the actual user
> ID is immaterial, thus we can work around the problem by making the the
> test UID-agnostic. Another subtle issue is the $HOME environment
> variable being a Windows-style path instead of a Unix-style path. We can
> be more flexible here instead of expecting exact path matches.

...when you added this paragraph from my separate patch which you
folded into this patch for v7. The two paragraphs are at odds with one
another.