On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 1:45 PM Pratyush Yadav <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In light of the recent breakages on macOS, this PR contains a revert of > the offending commit. I will add it back in the next version with > problems on macOS fixed. > > This highlights the need for me to figure out a way to test on macOS. It > is not a good strategy to put breaking bugs in a release and hope to fix > it in the next one. And macOS has been a regular offender. Dunno if it > is possible without owning the Mac hardware though... A couple suggestions: Send pull requests to Junio early and often. His tree gets tested more widely than the stand-alone git-gui, so breakage is more likely to get detected earlier rather than later in his tree, thus giving us a more comfortable margin for dealing with problems. The majority of the problems noticed on macOS have not been specific to macOS itself. Rather, they are specific to the old version of Tcl which ships with macOS. Therefore, an easy way for you to detect these problems early is to install an old version of Tcl on your development machine and ensure that you test against that version before sending a pull request. I think that this approach alone would catch all of the outright breakage problems we've seen recently on macOS. (It won't catch aesthetic issues, but those tend to be minor compared with the outright breakage.) Thanks.
