Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Change the compilation of the main 'git' binary to not have the CC > clobber 'git' in-place. This means that e.g. running the test suite > in-place and recompiling won't fail whatever tests happen to be > running for the duration of the binary being regenerated. I am not sure why I would want to support the workflow this is trying to help. I do not want to see a patch on this list claiming that "While the whole test suite is running, I tweaked the source three times and recompiled, so some tests may have used my second iteration while others may have used my third and the final version of the code---in any case, all tests passed". And when a patch that was developed that way came in, I do not want to hear "Yes, the test suite used mixed binaries, but I KNOW the difference between my second and third iteration should not matter the parts of the earlier tests that used the older iteration".
