[apparently it is impossible to send a plain text email using Google Inbox, maybe people on this list know someone to talk to about that? Sorry for the dup for those on cc] On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The first one is a replay of Kyle's workaround for older versions of > Getopt::Long that did not take "--no-option" to negate a boolean > option "--option". The second one revert the workarounds made to > the test script over time, and should break if the first one does > not work well for older Getopt::Long (I have no reason to suspect it > would break, though). The only downside I can see is that we're going to end up carrying around these extra options for the forseeable future and possibly adding more over time with this precedent. Maybe that's not so bad. The extra options are not ugly at all. My original thinking in just fixing up the tests was that the platforms with ancient versions of perl/Getopt::Long would just disappear over time and we'd eventually stop fixing up the tests to be backwards compatible when people stopped showing up saying that the tests failed on their ancient system. What platforms are actually affected? RHEL3? Other ancient UNIX? I know the systems I was fixing up were ancient SunOS and IRIX. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it), I don't have access to any ancient systems to test on anymore. So I can't run the updated tests to make sure they still pass. The patches "look" fine to me though. :-) -Brandon -- 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