Hi, On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > When overriding the identifier "stat" so that "struct stat" will be > > substituted with "struct _stati64" everywhere, I tried to fix the calls > > to the _function_ stat(), too, but I forgot to change the earlier > > attempt "stat64" to "_stati64" there. > > > > So, the stat() calls were overridden by calls to _stati64() instead. > > > > Unfortunately, there is a function _stati64() so that I missed that > > calls to stat() were not actually overridden by calls to mingw_lstat(), > > but t4200-rerere.sh showed the error. > > > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > > Since this is a fix-up to a new on 'master', I've applied the patch > myself, but how would we want to handle MinGW related patches in general? > > My preference is to have somebody I can rely on receiving Acked forwards > from (or pulling from). My preference is to keep the tried and tested mingw.git maintainer... ;-) Note: IMHO Windows support is really at most beta quality; I would prefer only those using it who can fix bugs themselves, or have the means to make others fix the bugs. So technically, we do not need such a strict and rigid process as for git.git itself, which is blessed with hundreds of contributors, due to which is really is ready for the end-user. Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
