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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] tests(gpg): allow the gpg-agent to start on Windows
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 13:59:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqh7yd1nbh.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2003242043050.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Tue, 24 Mar 2020 20:55:04 +0100 (CET)")

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> I fear that this distinction really is lost on anybody who does not have
> to deal with MSYS2 on Windows.
> ...
> In short: I am convinced that this is a subtlety in our test suite that we
> cannot reasonably expect any contributors other than Windows-based ones to
> get right, and I am fairly certain that we will just have to keep
> monitoring the CI/PR builds for similar issues and then help the
> contributors by suggesting the appropriate fixes.

IOW, this cannot be made an engineering problem and has to stay a
black art? ;-)

That's somewhat sad, but I guess we have to live with it.

Thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-24 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-23 13:09 [PATCH 0/2] Enable GPG in the Windows part of the CI/PR builds Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-03-23 13:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] tests(gpg): allow the gpg-agent to start on Windows Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-03-23 17:46   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-24 19:55     ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-24 20:59       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-03-24 22:26         ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-24 23:40           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-23 13:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] tests(gpg): increase verbosity to allow debugging Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-03-23 17:32   ` Jeff King
2020-03-23 18:04     ` Jeff King
2020-03-23 19:21       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-23 20:15         ` Jeff King
2020-03-23 21:28           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-23 21:31             ` Jeff King
2020-03-24 21:41               ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-24 22:05                 ` Jeff King
2020-03-24 22:25                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-24 22:33                     ` Jeff King
2020-03-25  5:41 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Enable GPG in the Windows part of the CI/PR builds Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-03-25  5:41   ` [PATCH v2 1/5] tests(gpg): allow the gpg-agent to start on Windows Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-03-25  5:41   ` [PATCH v2 2/5] t/lib-gpg.sh: stop pretending to be a stand-alone script Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-03-26  8:21     ` Jeff King
2020-03-26 13:48       ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-26 19:31       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-25  5:41   ` [PATCH v2 3/5] tests: turn GPG, GPGSM and RFC1991 into lazy prereqs Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-03-25 17:25     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-26  8:35     ` Jeff King
2020-03-26 14:27       ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-27  9:10         ` Jeff King
2020-03-27 17:44           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-27 20:24             ` Eric Sunshine
2020-03-27 21:37               ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-28 10:58                 ` Jeff King
2020-03-28 10:54             ` Jeff King
2020-03-28 23:49               ` [PATCH v2] t/README: suggest how to leave test early with failure Junio C Hamano
2020-03-29  7:23                 ` Eric Sunshine
2020-03-29 14:33                 ` Jeff King
2020-03-30 18:39           ` [PATCH v2 3/5] tests: turn GPG, GPGSM and RFC1991 into lazy prereqs Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-31  9:34             ` Jeff King
2020-03-25  5:41   ` [PATCH v2 4/5] tests: do not let lazy prereqs inside `test_expect_*` turn off tracing Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-03-25 17:23     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-26 13:45       ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-26  8:49     ` Jeff King
2020-03-26 14:34       ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-25  5:41   ` [PATCH v2 5/5] tests: increase the verbosity of the GPG-related prereqs Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-03-26  8:50     ` Jeff King
2020-03-26 14:36       ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-26 15:35   ` [PATCH v3 0/5] Enable GPG in the Windows part of the CI/PR builds Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-03-26 15:35     ` [PATCH v3 1/5] tests(gpg): allow the gpg-agent to start on Windows Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-03-26 15:35     ` [PATCH v3 2/5] t/lib-gpg.sh: stop pretending to be a stand-alone script Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-03-26 15:35     ` [PATCH v3 3/5] tests: do not let lazy prereqs inside `test_expect_*` turn off tracing Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-03-26 15:35     ` [PATCH v3 4/5] tests: turn GPG, GPGSM and RFC1991 into lazy prereqs Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-03-26 15:35     ` [PATCH v3 5/5] tests: increase the verbosity of the GPG-related prereqs Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-03-27  9:12     ` [PATCH v3 0/5] Enable GPG in the Windows part of the CI/PR builds Jeff King
2020-03-27 17:45       ` Junio C Hamano

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