On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 22:34, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I think it's important to be pro-active about trying to spot >> any issues that might affect end users before they happen. > > The goal is noble, but asking the platform to perform an impossible > task and subjectively judging if the failure mode is acceptable is > not the way to do so, I would have to say. I leave it up to you whether you want to accept the patch to remove it, but with it included we at least *know* what the failure modes are, since we get user reports about it. That's the reason I put it in there to begin with. Because I have no idea how all these pieces play together with systems in the wild, and I'd like to pro-actively find out about that. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html