Ralf Wildenhues gmx.de> writes:
>
> Don't worry; FWIW, I'm about to be off soon as well. I committed the
> patch below to HEAD and branch-1-10. Could you (or somebody else)
> please make sure that the new test exposes the bug that was fixed, on
> your Cygwin? Thanks.
I just verified on the m
* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 06:41:03PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues gmx.de> writes:
> >
> > It would be even better if it came with a test to ensure correct
> > functioning of the script, as far as portably possible. For example,
> > it could test that three words are output, and that
Ralf Wildenhues gmx.de> writes:
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> Apologies for the delay.
>
> * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:24:14PM CET:
> > mdate-sh fails miserably in the presence of user/group names that contain
> > spaces (bad practice, but particularly common on cygwin).
> [...]
> > OK t
Hi Eric,
Apologies for the delay.
* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:24:14PM CET:
> mdate-sh fails miserably in the presence of user/group names that contain
> spaces (bad practice, but particularly common on cygwin).
[...]
> OK to apply this patch?
This patch looks ok for HEAD and b
mdate-sh fails miserably in the presence of user/group names that contain
spaces (bad practice, but particularly common on cygwin). Currently, the
script tries to figure out where the first field containing a month name
appears when looking at /, then uses that information to grab the same fiel
