SubmittingPatches: mention subsystems with dedicated repositories
These were only mentioned in periodical "A note from the maintainer"
posting and not in the documentation suite. SubmittingPatches has a
section to help contributors decide on what commit to base their
changes, which is the most suitable place for this information.
The introductory text in the "long version" talks about the origin
of this document with "I started ...", but it is unclear who that I
is, and more importantly, it is not interesting how it was started.
Just state the purpose of the document to help readers decide if it
is releavant to them.
Documentation: correct example restore from bundle
Because the bundle created in the example does not record HEAD, "git
clone" will not check out the files to the working tree:
$ git clone pr.bundle q/
Cloning into 'q'...
Receiving objects: 100% (619/619), 13.52 MiB | 18.74 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (413/413), done.
warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.
Avoid alarming the readers by adding "-b master" to the example. A
better fix may be to arrange the bundle created in the earlier step
to record HEAD, so that it can be cloned without this workaround.
Signed-off-by: Brilliantov Kirill Vladimirovich <brilliantov@inbox.ru> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
merge --no-edit: do not credit people involved in the side branch
The credit lines "By" and "Via" to credit authors and committers for
their contributions on the side branch are meant as a hint to the
integrator to decide whom to mention in the log message text. After
the integrator saves the message in the editor, they are meant to go
away and that is why they are commented out.
When a merge is recorded without editing the generated message,
however, its contents do not go through the normal stripspace()
and these lines are left in the merge.
Stop producing them when we know the merge is going to be recorded
without editing, i.e. when --no-edit is given.
When testing aliases in t/t1020-subdirectory.sh use longer names so that
they're less likely to conflict with a git-* command somewhere in the
$PATH.
I have a git-ss command in my path which prevents the 'ss' alias from
being used. This command will always fail for git.git, causing the test
to fail. Even if the command succeeded, that would be a false success
for the test since the alias wasn't actually used. A longer, more
descriptive name will make it much less likely that somebody has a
command in their $PATH which will shadow the alias created for the test.
While here, use a longer name for the 'test' alias as well since that is
also short and meaningful enough to make it not unlikely that somebody
would have a command in their $PATH which will shadow that as well.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Schrab <aaron@schrab.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
dir.c: rename free_excludes() to clear_exclude_list()
It is clearer to use a 'clear_' prefix for functions which empty
and deallocate the contents of a data structure without freeing
the structure itself, and a 'free_' prefix for functions which
also free the structure itself.
In a similar way to the previous commit, this extracts a new helper
function last_exclude_matching_path() which return the last
exclude_list element which matched, or NULL if no match was found.
is_path_excluded() becomes a wrapper around this, and just returns 0
or 1 depending on whether any matching exclude_list element was found.
This allows callers to find out _why_ a given path was excluded,
rather than just whether it was or not, paving the way for a new git
sub-command which allows users to test their exclude lists from the
command line.
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a similar way to the previous commit, this extracts a new helper
function last_exclude_matching() which returns the last exclude_list
element which matched, or NULL if no match was found. is_excluded()
becomes a wrapper around this, and just returns 0 or 1 depending on
whether any matching exclude_list element was found.
This allows callers to find out _why_ a given path was excluded,
rather than just whether it was or not, paving the way for a new git
sub-command which allows users to test their exclude lists from the
command line.
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The excluded function uses a new helper function called
last_exclude_matching_from_list() to perform the inner loop over all of
the exclude patterns. The helper just tells us whether the path is
included, excluded, or undecided.
However, it may be useful to know _which_ pattern was triggered. So
let's pass out the entire exclude match, which contains the status
information we were already passing out.
Further patches can make use of this.
This is a modified forward port of a patch from 2009 by Jeff King:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/108815
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
dir.c: rename cryptic 'which' variable to more consistent name
'el' is only *slightly* less cryptic, but is already used as the
variable name for a struct exclude_list pointer in numerous other
places, so this reduces the number of cryptic variable names in use by
one :-)
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Improve documentation and comments regarding directory traversal API
traversal API has a few potentially confusing properties. These
comments clarify a few key aspects and will hopefully make it easier
to understand for other newcomers in the future.
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the suggestion to use parsecvs, which is currently broken.
The parsecvs code has been neglected for a long time, and the only
public version does not even build correctly. I have been handed
control of the project and intend to fix this, but until I do it
cannot be recommended.
Also, the project URL given for Subversion needed to be updated
to follow their site move.
Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* sl/maint-git-svn-docs:
git-svn: Note about tags.
git-svn: Expand documentation for --follow-parent
git-svn: Recommend use of structure options.
git-svn: Document branches with at-sign(@).
Document that 'git svn' will import SVN tags as branches.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.leske@sleske.name> Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Describe what the option --follow-parent does, and what happens if it is
set or unset.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.leske@sleske.name> Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document that when using git svn, one should usually either use the
directory structure options to import branches as branches, or only
import one subdirectory. The default behaviour of cloning all branches
and tags as subdirectories in the working copy is usually not what the
user wants.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.leske@sleske.name> Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git svn sometimes creates branches with an at-sign in the name
(branchname@revision). These branches confuse many users and it is a FAQ
why they are created. Document when git svn creates them.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.leske@sleske.name> Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-remote-helpers.txt: document invocation before input format
In the distant past, the order things were documented was
'Invocation', 'Commands', 'Capabilities', ...
Then it was decided that before giving a list of Commands, there
should be an overall description of the 'Input format', which was
a wise decision. However, this description was put as the very
first thing, with the rationale that any implementor would want
to know that first.
However, it seems an implementor would actually first need to
know how the remote helper will be invoked, so moving
'Invocation' to the front again seems logical. Moreover, we now
don't switch from discussing the input format to the invocation
style and then back to input related stuff.
Signed-off-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de> Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation: move diff.wordRegex from config.txt to diff-config.txt
19299a8 (Documentation: Move diff.<driver>.* from config.txt to
diff-config.txt, 2011-04-07) moved the diff configuration options to
diff-config.txt, but forgot about diff.wordRegex, which was left
behind in config.txt. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This file is rather outdated and IMHO shouldn't be there in the first place.
(If there are translations of the Git documentation they are better be kept
separate from the original documentation.)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
mergetools/p4merge: Honor $TMPDIR for the /dev/null placeholder
Use $TMPDIR when creating the /dev/null placeholder for p4merge.
This prevents users from finding a seemingly random untracked file
in their worktree.
This is different than what mergetool does with $LOCAL and
$REMOTE because those files exist to aid users when resolving
merges. p4merge's /dev/null placeholder is not helpful in that
situation so it is sensible to keep it out of the worktree.
Reported-by: Jeremy Morton <admin@game-point.net> Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous commit documented two known breakages revolving around
a case where one side flips a tree into a blob (or vice versa),
where the original code simply gets confused and feeds a mixture of
trees and blobs into either the recursive merge-tree (and recursing
into the blob will fail) or three-way merge (and merging tree contents
together with blobs will fail).
Fix it by feeding trees (and only trees) into the recursive
merge-tree machinery and blobs (and only blobs) into the three-way
content level merge machinery separately; when this happens, the
entire merge has to be marked as conflicting at the structure level.
merge-tree: add comments to clarify what these functions are doing
Rename the "branch1" parameter given to resolve() to "ours", to
clarify what is going on. Also, annotate the unresolved_directory()
function with some comments to show what decisions are made in each
step, and highlight two bugs that need to be fixed.
The optional third parameter when __git_ps1 is used in
PROMPT_COMMAND mode as format string for printf to further
customize the way the git status string is embedded in the
user's PS1 prompt.
Signed-off-by: Simon Oosthoek <s.oosthoek@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
cherry-picking into an unborn branch should work, so make it work,
with or without --ff.
Cherry-picking anything other than a commit that only adds files, will
naturally result in conflicts. Similarly, revert also works, but will
result in conflicts unless the specified revision only deletes files.
Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jk/mailmap-cleanup:
contrib: update stats/mailmap script
.mailmap: normalize emails for Linus Torvalds
.mailmap: normalize emails for Jeff King
.mailmap: fix broken entry for Martin Langhoff
.mailmap: match up some obvious names/emails
* ta/doc-cleanup:
Documentation: build html for all files in technical and howto
Documentation/howto: convert plain text files to asciidoc
Documentation/technical: convert plain text files to asciidoc
Change headline of technical/send-pack-pipeline.txt to not confuse its content with content from git-send-pack.txt
Shorten two over-long lines in git-bisect-lk2009.txt by abbreviating some sha1
Split over-long synopsis in git-fetch-pack.txt into several lines
A function for checking that two given parameters refer to the same
revision was defined in several places, so move the definition to
test-lib-functions.sh instead.
Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --reroll-count=$N option, when given a positive integer:
- Adds " v$N" to the subject prefix specified. As the default
subject prefix string is "PATCH", --reroll-count=2 makes it
"PATCH v2".
- Prefixes "v$N-" to the names used for output files. The cover
letter, whose name is usually 0000-cover-letter.patch, becomes
v2-0000-cover-letter.patch when given --reroll-count=2.
This allows users to use the same --output-directory for multiple
iterations of the same series, without letting the output for a
newer round overwrite output files from the earlier rounds. The
user can incorporate materials from earlier rounds to update the
newly minted iteration, and use "send-email v2-*.patch" to send out
the patches belonging to the second iteration easily.
The function switched between two operating modes depending on the
NULL-ness of its two parameters, as a hacky way to share small part
of implementation, sacrificing cleanliness of the API.
Implement "fmt_output_subject()" function that takes a subject
string and gives the name for the output file, and on top of it,
implement "fmt_output_commit()" function that takes a commit and
gives the name for the output file.
The function chooses from three operating modes (format using the
subject, the commit, or just number) based on NULL-ness of two of
its parameters, which is an ugly hack for sharing only a bit of
code.
Separate out the "just numbers" part out to the callers.
Most functions that emit to a strbuf take the strbuf as their first
parameter; make this function follow suit.
The serial number of the patch being emitted (nr) and suffix used
for patch filename (suffix) are both recorded in rev_info; drop
these separate parameters and pass the rev_info directly.
The suffix for the output filename is found in rev->patch_suffix; do
not keep using the global that is only used to parse the command
line and configuration.
"git diff <blob> <blob>" was not documented and was only hinted as
an extension to "git diff <commit> <commit> -- <pathspec>", but
comparison between two blobs are more special than that. It does
not take any pathspec to begin with.
* sl/git-svn-docs:
git-svn: Note about tags.
git-svn: Expand documentation for --follow-parent
git-svn: Recommend use of structure options.
git-svn: Document branches with at-sign(@).
* jk/mailmap-cleanup:
contrib: update stats/mailmap script
.mailmap: normalize emails for Linus Torvalds
.mailmap: normalize emails for Jeff King
.mailmap: fix broken entry for Martin Langhoff
.mailmap: match up some obvious names/emails
Move ./technical/api-command.txt to ./howto/new-command.txt
The contents of this document does not describe any particular API, but
is more about the way to add a new command, which belongs to the "How To"
section of the documentation suite.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
http.c: Avoid username prompt for certifcate credentials
If sslCertPasswordProtected is set to true do not ask for username to decrypt rsa key. This question is pointless, the key is only protected by a password. Internaly the username is simply set to "".
Signed-off-by: Rene Bredlau <git@unrelated.de> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
refs: do not use cached refs in repack_without_ref
When we delete a ref that is packed, we rewrite the whole
packed-refs file and simply omit the ref that no longer
exists. However, we base the rewrite on whatever happens to
be in our refs cache, not what is necessarily on disk. That
opens us up to a race condition if another process is
simultaneously packing the refs, as we will overwrite their
newly-made pack-refs file with our potentially stale data,
losing commits.
# in one terminal, repack the refs repeatedly
cd parent &&
while true; do
git pack-refs --all
done
# in another terminal, simultaneously push updates to
# master, and create and delete an unrelated ref
cd child &&
while true; do
git push origin HEAD:newbranch &&
git commit --allow-empty -m foo
us=`git rev-parse master` &&
git push origin master &&
git push origin :newbranch &&
them=`git --git-dir=../parent rev-parse master` &&
if test "$them" != "$us"; then
echo >&2 "$them" != "$us"
exit 1
fi
done
In many cases the two processes will conflict over locking
the packed-refs file, and the deletion of newbranch will
simply fail. But eventually you will hit the race, which
happens like this:
1. We push a new commit to master. It is already packed
(from the looping pack-refs call). We write the new
value (let us call it B) to $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/master,
but the old value (call it A) remains in the
packed-refs file.
2. We push the deletion of newbranch, spawning a
receive-pack process. Receive-pack advertises all refs
to the client, causing it to iterate over each ref; it
caches the packed refs in memory, which points at the
stale value A.
3. Meanwhile, a separate pack-refs process is running. It
runs to completion, updating the packed-refs file to
point master at B, and deleting $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/master
which also pointed at B.
4. Back in the receive-pack process, we get the
instruction to delete :newbranch. We take a lock on
packed-refs (which works, as the other pack-refs
process has already finished). We then rewrite the
contents using the cached refs, which contain the stale
value A.
The resulting packed-refs file points master once again at
A. The loose ref which would override it to point at B was
deleted (rightfully) in step 3. As a result, master now
points at A. The only trace that B ever existed in the
parent is in the reflog: the final entry will show master
moving from A to B, even though the ref still points at A
(so you can detect this race after the fact, because the
next reflog entry will move from A to C).
We can fix this by invalidating the packed-refs cache after
we have taken the lock. This means that we will re-read the
packed-refs file, and since we have the lock, we will be
sure that what we read will be atomically up-to-date when we
write (it may be out of date with respect to loose refs, but
that is OK, as loose refs take precedence).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
tests: paint unexpectedly fixed known breakages in bold red
Change color of unexpectedly fixed known breakages to bold red. An
unexpectedly passing test indicates that the test code is somehow
broken or out of sync with the code it is testing. Either way this is
an error which is potentially as bad as a failing test, and as such is
no longer portrayed as a pass in the output.
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add 5 new full test suite runs each with a different number of
passing/failing/broken/fixed tests, in order to ensure that the
correct exit code and output are generated in each case. As before,
these are run in a subdirectory to avoid disrupting the metrics for
the parent tests.
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
tests: change info messages from yellow/brown to cyan
Now that we've adopted a "traffic lights" coloring scheme, yellow is
used for warning messages, so we need to re-color info messages to
something less alarmist. Blue is a universal color for informational
messages; however we are using that for skipped tests in order to
align with the color schemes of other test suites. Therefore we use
cyan which is also blue-ish, but visually distinct from blue.
This was suggested on the list a while ago and no-one raised any
objections:
An earlier iteration of this patch used bold cyan, but the point of
this change is to make them less alarming; let's drop the boldness.
Also paint the message to report skipping the whole thing via
GIT_SKIP_TESTS mechanism in the same color as the "info" color
that is used on the final summary line for the entire script.
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Yellow seems a more appropriate color than bold green when
considering the universal traffic lights coloring scheme, where
green conveys the impression that everything's OK, and amber that
something's not quite right.
Likewise, change the color of the summarized total number of known
breakages from bold red to the same yellow to be less alarmist and
more consistent with the above.
An earlier version of this patch used bold yellow but because these
are all long-known failures, reminding them to developers in bold
over and over does not help encouraging them to take a look at them
very much. This iteration paints them in plain yellow instead to
make them less distracting.
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
oneway_merge(): only lstat() when told to update worktree
Although the subject line of 613f027 (read-tree -u one-way merge fix
to check out locally modified paths., 2006-05-15) mentions "read-tree
-u", it did not seem to check whether -u was in effect. Not checking
whether -u is in effect makes e.g. "read-tree --reset" lstat() the
worktree, even though the worktree stat should not matter for that
operation.
This speeds up e.g. "git reset" a little on the linux-2.6 repo (best
of five, warm cache):
Before After
real 0m0.288s 0m0.233s
user 0m0.190s 0m0.150s
sys 0m0.090s 0m0.080s
Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-compat-util.h: do not #include <sys/param.h> by default
Earlier we allowed platforms that lack <sys/param.h> not to include
the header file from git-compat-util.h; we have included this header
file since the early days back when we used MAXPATHLEN (which we no
longer use) and also depended on it slurping ULONG_MAX (which we get
by including stdint.h or inttypes.h these days).
It turns out that we can compile our modern codebase just file
without including it on many platforms (so far, Fedora, Debian,
Ubuntu, MinGW, Mac OS X, Cygwin, HP-Nonstop, QNX and z/OS are
reported to be OK).
Let's stop including it by default, and on platforms that need it to
be included, leave "make NEEDS_SYS_PARAM_H=YesPlease" as an escape
hatch and ask them to report to us, so that we can find out about
the real dependency and fix it in a more platform agnostic way.
Git takes pathspec arguments in many places to limit the
scope of an operation. These pathspecs are treated not as
literal paths, but as glob patterns that can be fed to
fnmatch. When a user is giving a specific pattern, this is a
nice feature.
However, when programatically providing pathspecs, it can be
a nuisance. For example, to find the latest revision which
modified "$foo", one can use "git rev-list -- $foo". But if
"$foo" contains glob characters (e.g., "f*"), it will
erroneously match more entries than desired. The caller
needs to quote the characters in $foo, and even then, the
results may not be exactly the same as with a literal
pathspec. For instance, the depth checks in
match_pathspec_depth do not kick in if we match via fnmatch.
This patch introduces a global command-line option (i.e.,
one for "git" itself, not for specific commands) to turn
this behavior off. It also has a matching environment
variable, which can make it easier if you are a script or
porcelain interface that is going to issue many such
commands.
This option cannot turn off globbing for particular
pathspecs. That could eventually be done with a ":(noglob)"
magic pathspec prefix. However, that level of granularity is
more cumbersome to use for many cases, and doing ":(noglob)"
right would mean converting the whole codebase to use
"struct pathspec", as the usual "const char **pathspec"
cannot represent extra per-item flags.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
compat/fnmatch: update old-style definition to ANSI
We try to avoid touching borrowed code, but we encourage people to
write without old-style definition and compile with -Werror these
days, and on platforms that need to use NO_FNMATCH, these three
functions make the compilation fail.
submodule update: add --remote for submodule's upstream changes
The current `update` command incorporates the superproject's gitlinked
SHA-1 ($sha1) into the submodule HEAD ($subsha1). Depending on the
options you use, it may checkout $sha1, rebase the $subsha1 onto
$sha1, or merge $sha1 into $subsha1. This helps you keep up with
changes in the upstream superproject.
However, it's also useful to stay up to date with changes in the
upstream subproject. Previous workflows for incorporating such
changes include the ungainly:
With this patch, all of the useful functionality for incorporating
superproject changes can be reused to incorporate upstream subproject
updates. When you specify --remote, the target $sha1 is replaced with
a $sha1 of the submodule's origin/master tracking branch. If you want
to merge a different tracking branch, you can configure the
`submodule.<name>.branch` option in `.gitmodules`. You can override
the `.gitmodules` configuration setting for a particular superproject
by configuring the option in that superproject's default configuration
(using the usual configuration hierarchy, e.g. `.git/config`,
`~/.gitconfig`, etc.).
Previous use of submodule.<name>.branch
=======================================
Because we're adding a new configuration option, it's a good idea to
check if anyone else is already using the option. The foreach-pull
example above was described by Ævar in
Gerrit uses the same interpretation for the setting, but because
Gerrit has direct access to the subproject repositories, it updates
the superproject repositories automatically when a subproject changes.
Gerrit also accepts the special value '.', which it expands into the
superproject's branch name.
Although the --remote functionality is using `submodule.<name>.branch`
slightly differently, the effect is the same. The foreach-pull
example uses the option to record the name of the local branch to
checkout before pulls. The tracking branch to be pulled is recorded
in `.git/modules/<name>/config`, which was initialized by the module
clone during `submodule add` or `submodule init`. Because the branch
name stored in `submodule.<name>.branch` was likely the same as the
branch name used during the initial `submodule add`, the same branch
will be pulled in each workflow.
Implementation details
======================
In order to ensure a current tracking branch state, `update --remote`
fetches the submodule's remote repository before calculating the
SHA-1. However, I didn't change the logic guarding the existing fetch:
if test -z "$nofetch"
then
# Run fetch only if $sha1 isn't present or it
# is not reachable from a ref.
(clear_local_git_env; cd "$path" &&
( (rev=$(git rev-list -n 1 $sha1 --not --all 2>/dev/null) &&
test -z "$rev") || git-fetch)) ||
die "$(eval_gettext "Unable to fetch in submodule path '\$path'")"
fi
There will not be a double-fetch, because the new $sha1 determined
after the `--remote` triggered fetch should always exist in the
repository. If it doesn't, it's because some racy process removed it
from the submodule's repository and we *should* be re-fetching.
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t9020: use configured Python to run the test helper
The test helper svnrdump_sim.py is used as "svnrdump" during the
execution of this test, but the arrangement was not optimal:
- it relied on symbolic links;
- unportable "export VAR=VAL" was used;
- GIT_BUILD_DIR variable was not quoted correctly;
- it assumed that the Python interpreter is in /usr/bin/ and
called "python" (i.e. not "python2.7" etc.)
Rework this by writing a small shell script that spawns the right
Python interpreter, using the right quoting.
These "expect-failure" tests were not looking for the right string
in the patch file. For example:
grep "^ *"S. E. Cipient" <scipient@example.com>\$" patch5
was looking for "^ *S." in these three files:
"E."
"Cipient <scipient@example.com>$"
"patch5"
With some implementations of grep, the lack of file "E." was
reported as an error, leading to the failure of the test.
With other implementations of grep, the pattern "^ *S." matched what
was in patch5, without diagnosing the missing files as an error, and
made these tests unexpectedly pass.
The check_snapshot function makes sure that no cruft outside the
repository hierarchy is added to the tar archive. The output from
"tar tf" on the resulting archive is inspected to see if there is
anything that does not begin with "$prefix/".
There are two issues with this implementation:
- Traditional tar implemenations that do not understand
pax_global_header will write it out as if it is a plain file at
the top-level;
- Some implementations of tar do not add trailing slash when
showing a directory entry (i.e. the output line for the entire
archive will show "$prefix", not "$prefix/").
Fix them so that what we want to validate can be tested with
traditional tar implementations.
On systems without "locale" installed, t0200-gettext-basic.sh leaked
error messages when checking if some test locales are available.
Hide them, as they are not very useful.