Re: [PATCH v2] CodingGuidelines: explicitly allow "local" for test scripts

On Tue, May 04 2021, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] writes:

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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.