On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 10:21:58AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Even though "git update-index --cacheinfo" ought to be filesystem > agnostic, > > $ git update-index --add --cacheinfo "100644,$empty_blob,funny /empty" > > fails only on Windows, and this unfortunately makes the approach of > the previous step unworkable. > > Resurrect the earlier approach to give up on running the test on > known-bad platforms. Instead of computing a custom prerequisite, > just use !MINGW we have used elsewhere. Thanks, this looks good to me. You mentioned FUNNYNAMES earlier (which I forgot even existed). That would probably work in practice, but it is kind of overloaded already. I think using MINGW here gets to the point, and as you note, if some other platforms fails we'd want to hear about it. -Peff
