Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:30:02PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Let's just deal with a simple known cases (like FreeBSD) in the real >> code that everybody exercises at runtime, and have the new test only >> check we do not segfault on a value we used to segfault upon seeing. > > OK. Here it is, with the other option as an "alt" patch for reference. > > [1/2]: date: recognize bogus FreeBSD gmtime output > [2/2]: t4212: loosen far-in-future test for AIX > [2alt/2]: work around unreliable gmtime errors on AIX > > -Peff Thanks. 2alt does not look too bad, but on the other hand, we are replacing a value that can produce the right result on correctly implemented gmtime with a completely bogus value only because we know there exists one broken implementation---which does not sound a very good trade-off, given that we would get a result that does not correspond to the input anyway with or without the change on the broken implementation. -- 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