Re: 2.11.0-rc1 will not be tagged for a few days

[Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>]

Am 11.11.2016 um 22:07 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> OK, then let's have
>>
>> 	filter_git () {
>> 		rm -f rot13-filter.log &&
>> 		git "$@"
>>                 ...
>>
>> and call that -rc1.
>
> That is, to queue this on top of ls/filter-process and merge it
> down.
>
> -- >8 --
> Subject: t0021: remove debugging cruft
>
> The redirection of the standard error stream to a temporary file is
> a leftover cruft during debugging.  Remove it.
>
> Besides, it is reported by folks on the Windows that the test is
> flaky with this redirection; somebody gets confused and this
> merely-redirected-to file gets marked as delete-pending by git.exe
> and makes it finish with a non-zero exit status when "git checkout"
> finishes.  Windows folks may want to figure that one out, but for
> the purpose of this test, it shouldn't become a show-stopper.
>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Nicely summarized! Thank you very much!

I've double-checked again that the redirection is really not used by the 
tests. The name does occur in a .gitignore, but I guess that is not 
important for the background filter process. It would be good if Lars 
could confirm this.

> ---
>  t/t0021-conversion.sh | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/t0021-conversion.sh b/t/t0021-conversion.sh
> index cb72fa49de..5ce2535017 100755
> --- a/t/t0021-conversion.sh
> +++ b/t/t0021-conversion.sh
> @@ -27,8 +27,7 @@ file_size () {
>
>  filter_git () {
>  	rm -f rot13-filter.log &&
> -	git "$@" 2>git-stderr.log &&
> -	rm -f git-stderr.log
> +	git "$@"
>  }
>
>  # Compare two files and ensure that `clean` and `smudge` respectively are
>