blame,cat-file: Demonstrate --textconv is wrongly running converter on symlinks

diff --git a/t/t8007-cat-file-textconv.sh b/t/t8007-cat-file-textconv.sh
index 71f41453d1c4cfcaaba7642447dda0a912c15e1f..98a3e1f571a5c8a73e9c6ae38e5eae85899419cc 100755 (executable)
--- a/t/t8007-cat-file-textconv.sh
+++ b/t/t8007-cat-file-textconv.sh
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ chmod +x helper
 
 test_expect_success 'setup ' '
        echo "bin: test" >one.bin &&
+       if test_have_prereq SYMLINKS; then
+               ln -s one.bin symlink.bin
+       fi &&
        git add . &&
        GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=Number1 git commit -a -m First --date="2010-01-01 18:00:00" &&
        echo "bin: test version 2" >one.bin &&
@@ -68,4 +71,30 @@ test_expect_success 'cat-file --textconv on previous commit' '
        git cat-file --textconv HEAD^:one.bin >result &&
        test_cmp expected result
 '
+
+test_expect_success SYMLINKS 'cat-file without --textconv (symlink)' '
+       git cat-file blob :symlink.bin >result &&
+       printf "%s" "one.bin" >expected
+       test_cmp expected result
+'
+
+
+# fails because cat-file tries to run converter on symlink.bin
+test_expect_failure SYMLINKS 'cat-file --textconv on index (symlink)' '
+       ! git cat-file --textconv :symlink.bin 2>result &&
+       cat >expected <<\EOF &&
+fatal: git cat-file --textconv: unable to run textconv on :symlink.bin
+EOF
+       test_cmp expected result
+'
+
+# fails because cat-file tries to run converter on symlink.bin
+test_expect_failure SYMLINKS 'cat-file --textconv on HEAD (symlink)' '
+       ! git cat-file --textconv HEAD:symlink.bin 2>result &&
+       cat >expected <<EOF &&
+fatal: git cat-file --textconv: unable to run textconv on HEAD:symlink.bin
+EOF
+       test_cmp expected result
+'
+
 test_done