On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 08:51:31PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > One could argue that the test isn't very realistic; it's setting up this > > "pretend there's a pager" situation to get around the tty restrictions > > of the test environment. So one option would be to move back towards > > using a real tty. [...] > > The main reason why we moved away from the "real" TTY is that the TTY we > simulate in `t/test-terminal.perl` is not actually real at all on Windows. > Instead, it is the Cygwin/MSYS2-emulated version of a PTY, and as a > consequence `git.exe` simply has no way of accessing it. > > Which means that by moving "back towards using a real tty" we would lose > all test coverage on Windows, which is not a thought I like to entertain. Yeah, regressing the improvements done by 8539b46534 (t3701: avoid depending on the TTY prerequisite, 2019-12-06) was definitely part of my motivation, but I guess I didn't spell that out completely. -Peff
