Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 09:01:19AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Yeah, I am actuall hoping that somebody clever, with time, comes up >> with a systematic way to give us better coverage, but until then, I >> think it is better to honestly record where we are to future >> developers. > > I faced a similar issue with the -Wunused-parameter patches. Just when I > thought I had everything annotated, I'd find some obscure Makefile knob > that compiled new code (or even in one case disabled some code that used > a variable!). > ... > But at least in this case, the old "if it is important, somebody will > build it and report the problem" line of thinking worked out. So maybe > that is enough. Ah, I guess the debugging situation is quite similar with that topic. Thanks for your insight.
