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From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ci/install-depends: attempt to fix "brew cask" stuff
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:07:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPig+cSWa_jgUjPXVMeOUwxQV_9Qhv0f-Wyb3odJnb1UpcOcPg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YAH0G+Y4fIxoTeZa@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 3:00 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > -     brew cask install --no-quarantine perforce || {
> > +     brew install --cask --no-quarantine perforce || {
>
> On a related note, it feels like perforce is a frequent offender for
> triggering spurious failures (both for homebrew setup, but I have
> definitely seen racy/flaky failures from it as well). I am tempted to
> say it is not worth the trouble, but then I do not care at all about
> git-p4 myself in the first place, so I may be biased.

To be fair to 'perforce', though, the fault of this particular problem
is Homebrew, which doesn't seem to be all that concerned about
backward compatibility, at least in my experience. The single
Homebrew-related automation script I wrote for personal use has been
broken by arbitrary Homebrew changes frustratingly often over the last
three years.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-15 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-15  3:14 [PATCH] ci/install-depends: attempt to fix "brew cask" stuff Junio C Hamano
2021-01-15  5:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-15  6:05   ` Eric Sunshine
2021-01-15 14:27   ` Derrick Stolee
2021-01-15 19:52     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-15 19:59 ` Jeff King
2021-01-15 20:07   ` Eric Sunshine [this message]
2021-01-15 20:46     ` Jeff King
2021-02-01 22:11       ` SZEDER Gábor
2021-01-24  2:41   ` Philippe Blain
2021-01-24  6:18     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-25  0:56     ` Taylor Blau
2021-01-27 22:21     ` Jeff King
2021-01-28  5:23       ` Junio C Hamano

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