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

> Without this patch, and without removing support for `.git/branches/`,
> you force the Visual Studio build to _not_ pass the test suite. It's as
> simple as that.

I see it as deficiency of the build procedure.  What makes it so
different, compared to "make" we type on our boxes, where we do get
the .git/branches/ directory anyway, even without having any file in
it?  The patch in question is to punt solving that and instead break
the test suite.