On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 03:23:02PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: > Jeff King wrote: > > Preemptively finding portability problems may save work in the long > > term. And people may even be using Git on AIX and just ignoring test > > failures, or they have GNU coreutils installed anyway, etc. But it would > > also save work if we can ignore platforms that nobody uses. > > I agree, but the Git project is overly preoccupied (IMO) with > hypothetical issues some hypothetical users might have in some > hypothetical situations, and that is used as a rationale to block changes > that would improve the experience of the vast majority of users. > > This is not a hypothetical issue, and yet you are suggesting to > discount it? > > I don't disagree, but this is not consistent. I don't think they're the same issue at all. One is: we have millions of users, and this change may affect some of them negatively, so we may want to err on the side of caution. The other is: this has been accidentally broken for four years and nobody complained, so perhaps nobody is actually using it. You may also note that I did in fact produce a patch. -Peff
