On Tue, May 04 2021, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> It's effectively synonymous with saying "we still want to support git on >> platforms that are so broken they can't even run a single test in our >> test suite". > > Not really. Those on such a platform would (rightly) say that it is > the test suite that is broken and out of compliance. Indeed. But the lack of any reports about that suggests that in practice this is universally supported enough to be a hard dependency. In any case, it's clear you don't agree and you manage the patch queue. So I'll leave it at that. My aim here was to discover if we had any reason to think that "local" was less universally implemented than other POSIX/C89-plus features we rely on. It seems that it's not.
