Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > Without this patch, and without removing support for `.git/branches/`, > you force the Visual Studio build to _not_ pass the test suite. It's as > simple as that. I see it as deficiency of the build procedure. What makes it so different, compared to "make" we type on our boxes, where we do get the .git/branches/ directory anyway, even without having any file in it? The patch in question is to punt solving that and instead break the test suite.
