From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Commit cce8d6fdb introduces file t/t5100/nul, git tree is now incompatible with Cygwin (and probably Windows) Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 00:10:19 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <483AC2CE.7090801@gmail.com> <483AF570.9000609@gmail.com> <483B3E86.5020100@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Git Mailing List , Junio C Hamano To: Mark Levedahl X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 27 01:11:05 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K0lqL-0007KS-6j for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 27 May 2008 01:11:05 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753654AbYEZXKO (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 19:10:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755416AbYEZXKO (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 19:10:14 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:45698 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753631AbYEZXKN (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 19:10:13 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 26 May 2008 23:10:11 -0000 Received: from R105f.r.pppool.de (EHLO racer.local) [89.54.16.95] by mail.gmx.net (mp017) with SMTP; 27 May 2008 01:10:11 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/iwRxPjrXincEAMRChOgqWkPpmixrJhHycJiwuhp yiUh9JJszEQlFD X-X-Sender: gene099@racer In-Reply-To: <483B3E86.5020100@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Mon, 26 May 2008, Mark Levedahl wrote: > So, there is now a range of git's history that is unusable (and > non-bisectable) on Windows, at least from the porcelain. And apparently, > somewhere in that unusable history, a change was introduced that causes > test failure on Cygwin. Great... Oh, for the love of God! It is not like we will not fix this problem eventually! Screwing a lot of users by rewriting history, just because of Windows, which we need too many ugly work-arounds in Git's source code for anyway, is _not_ an option. Or would you suggest to scrap almost the complete history of Git just because most of it does not compile on platform XYZ, while the initial revision did? Exactly. Ciao, Dscho