Re: Cross-Platform Version Control

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

2009/5/13 Esko Luontola <esko.luontola@gmail.com>:
> Johannes Schindelin wrote on 13.5.2009 3:23:
>>
>> Well, that rather settles things, no?
>>
>
> There is need for the feature, but it's unfortunate that the Git developers
> do not see its value. There are many users for whom using non-ASCII names is
> necessary (for example all of Asia and most of Europe), but now it seems
> that Bazaar is the only DVCS that handles encodings correctly:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/829682/what-dvcs-support-unicode-filenames

Many Git developers just use systems which don't care about the file names
encoding at all and just keep the names as they were. So interoperability
problem does not exist for them. So, they either don't need the feature,
or can trivially avoid or workaround any problems.

> I see that there are some tests in the /t directory. Which command will run
> all of them, how good coverage do the tests have, how reproducable and
> isolated they are, how many seconds does it take to run all the tests? Is
> there some high-level documentation for new developers?

make test. See also t/README. We like them. I always run test suite before
deployment and sometimes run it just for fun (unless I have to run it
on Windows).