Hi kusma, On 2015-08-12 13:58, Erik Faye-Lund wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Johannes Schindelin > <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On 2015-08-11 22:51, Johannes Sixt wrote: >>> Invoking plink requires special treatment, and we have support and even >>> test cases for the commands 'plink' and 'tortoiseplink'. We also support >>> .exe variants for these two and there is a test for 'plink.exe'. >>> >>> On Windows, however, where support for plink.exe would be relevant, the >>> test case fails because it is not possible to execute a file with a .exe >>> extension that is actually not a binary executable---it is a shell >>> script in our test. We have to disable the test case on Windows. >> >> Oh how would I wish you were working on Git for Windows even *just* a bit *with* me. At least I would wish for a more specific description of the development environment, because it sure as hell is not anything anybody can download and install as easily as Git for Windows' SDK. >> >> FWIW Git for Windows has this patch (that I wanted to contribute in due time, what with being busy with all those tickets) to solve the problem mentioned in your patch in a different way: >> >> https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/commit/2fff4b54a0d4e5c5e2e4638c9b0739d3c1ff1e45 > > Yuck. On Windows, it's the extension of a file that dictates what kind > of file it is (and if it's executable or not), not the contents. Careful. If you continue along those lines, interactive rebase, `git add -p` and all those wonderful scripts Git has will have to stop working. Because those scripts completely disagree with what you just said about Windows if you think about it: *none* of them has an extension. I know that you do not mean this, of course, but that is the argument you were making... ;-) > If we get a shell script written with the ".exe"-prefix, it's considered as > an invalid executable by the system. And if we get a shell script without any `.exe` suffix, it is still considered as an invalid executable by the system. And even if we tack on an `.sh` suffix (which is *not* in line with the way Git works), it is *still* considered as an invalid executable by the system. Ciao, Dscho -- 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