On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 15:41, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Ed Maste <emaste@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 at 21:29, brian m. carlson > > <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > +* Works across Windows/Linux/macOS > >> > >> Git supports other platforms as well. > > > > In particular, FreeBSD is an example of a platform that is not in the > > above list, but included in Git's CI. Is there an explicit list of > > supported platforms (and perhaps a notion of support tiers)? > > It is not like there is a Git company who employs developers to > support certain platforms. This is the mailing list for the open > source development community for Git, and Developers come and leave > over time [*]. I'm sorry that my query wasn't clear; I have no expectation of Git volunteers providing support (in the commercial sense) for any particular platform. What I am interested in is the Git community's expectations around platform support, with respect to new features, changes that break one or more platforms, and similar. I submitted portability improvements for FreeBSD, and certainly expected that if a change introduced a regression on one of Linux, Windows, or macOS it would not be accepted. > * You can peek into config.mak.uname to see the list of platforms > that have had a working Git some time in the past. Hopefully most > of them are still up-to-date and working, but we wouldn't even > know if a minority platform, for which an entry for it was added > to the file in the past by some developer who needed a working Git > on it, no longer works with the latest version of Git with recent > toolchains after the original developer lost interest. Yes - this is what I'm wondering about. It seems this information is not available other than by inspecting config.mak.uname or reading mailing list archives. I can also look at .travis.yml, .cirrus.yml, and .github/workflows/main.yml to get a sense of the platforms supported by Git's CI. That includes at least various versions or flavours of Linux, macOS, Windows, and FreeBSD. Is it worth putting a sentence or two in README.md about this?
