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 16:40:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqo8slz5hx.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2003242326190.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Tue, 24 Mar 2020 23:26:36 +0100 (CET)")
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> Hi Junio,
>
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2020, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I am afraid so.
As long as there are our users on Windows, we can trust that we'd
have some folks who are as familiar as you are with these
subtleties, even if you may get bored working on it yourself,
leaving us with the right bus factor, right? ;-)
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-24 23:40 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
2020-03-24 22:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-24 23:40 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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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