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