Sebastian Thiel

I still think fixing the `core.symlinks` handling is a good point to start and I don't believe there will be any interference of #1427 . There is definitely no rush...

Indeed, there was the `gix-url` changes that I already forgot about, while all the shell-related work is stronger in memory for some reason. Somehow I feel that this might get...

Thanks for the detailed report! It appears that `gix-testtools` are unable to execute any script with backslashes in its path as these will count as escape-character. So for this to...

Thanks so much for researching this, and the very informative and interesting read! The special-behaviour in `std::process::Command` is indeed something that could break a lot of people if it ever...

@ankostis Sorry for the very late reply. I am no holiday now, and am working through everything that piled up. About the matter: I don't understand why this would leak...

If using direct access would be a solution, then it probably should be used instead. Correctness over performance I would say. The main driver behind using the 'buffer' interface was...

I wouldn't worry too much about it and rather deactivate the test under PyPy. By now, I would be surprised if smmap is working well at all, and believe that...

Thanks for figuring this out! Yes, there were times when Python was reference counted, which allowed to trigger destructors/finalizers somewhat consistently, but these times are long gone. I don't know...

Understandable! Since `smmap` and `gitdb` are not very useful and I don't think they are used that much, maybe there is another way to handle this. What about detecting, in...

@ankostis Real quick (at lunch break): unfortunately I wrote it so long ago, that I have no idea about my intentions anymore. I just know that the entire ref-counting business...