Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > What would be a *really* good strategy is: "Oh, there is a problem! Let's > acknowledge it and try to come up with a solution rather than a > work-around". > > EXPENSIVE_ON_WINDOWS is a symptom. Not a solution. Yes, it is a workaround. Making shell faster on windows would of course be one possible solution to make t/t*.sh scripts go faster ;-) Or update parts of t/t*.sh so that the equivalent test coverage can be kept while running making them go faster on Windows.