Re: Same test-path-utils behaves differently on different Windows systems

From: wwiser@gmail.com <wwiser@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 15, 2013, 14:54 UTC
Message-ID: <1a6eb0b0-3448-45e7-ab8b-95379202ddf4@googlegroups.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAHGBnuNaVWxa2kNqf3n9GmZZxFryLfJqKB5TxmDK5BiG5x53VQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I downloaded the 1.8.4 release yesterday and I believe I am observing this same issue on Windows 7 64-bit. When executing git difftool -d, after my difftool exits, these errors are reported in the console: fatal: unable to access '../../../../../../../../c:/myProjects/project/.git/config': Invalid argument fatal: unable to access '../../../../../../../../c:/myProjects/project/.git/config': Invalid argument diff-files --name-only -z: command returned error: 128

The path is correct (relative to the git installation) but the "/c:/" instead of "/c/" seems to be causing the issue.

Is this likely to be fixed soon?

Wesley Wiser

On Thursday, October 10, 2013 8:13:32 AM UTC-4, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:

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>
> Hi, 
>
> for my mingwGitDevEnv project [1] I'm currently looking at the failing 
> Git tests [2]. The first tests that fails is t0060-path-utils [3]: 
>
> not ok 88 - relative path: / /a/b/ => ../../ 
> # test "$(test-path-utils relative_path '/' '/a/b/')" = '../../' 
>
> not ok 91 - relative path: /x/y /a/b/ => ../../x/y 
> # test "$(test-path-utils relative_path '/x/y' '/a/b/')" = '../../x/y' 
>
> If I run "test-path-utils relative_path '/' '/a/b/'" on the server 
> (running Windows Server 2008 R2) that perform the testing I indeed 
> get: 
>
> $ test-path-utils relative_path '/' '/a/b/' 
> ../../C:/Jenkins/mingwGitDevEnv-test/workspace/mingwGitDevEnv 
> $ pwd -W 
> C:/Jenkins/mingwGitDevEnv-test/workspace/mingwGitDevEnv/git 
>
> The funny thing is, if I run the exact same binary on my local Windows 
> 8 64-bit machine I get the expected result: 
>
> $ test-path-utils relative_path '/' '/a/b/' 
> ../../ 
> $ pwd -W 
> C:/Jenkins/mingwGitDevEnv-test/workspace/mingwGitDevEnv/git 
>
> So how can the exact same test-path-utils binary create different 
> results fo the same arguments? I'd be very grateful for any insights. 
> If you want to play around with it yourself, you can download the 
> while Jenkins workspace as a ZIP at [4] (but note that it's almost 1 
> GiB). 
>
> It's probably also interesting to mention that t0060-path-utils did 
> not yet fail in build 38 [5] and I'm currently in the process to find 
> out what changed. 
>
> [1] https://github.com/sschuberth/mingwGitDevEnv/ 
> [2] http://mingwgitdevenv.cloudapp.net/job/mingwGitDevEnv-test/42/ 
> [3] 
> http://mingwgitdevenv.cloudapp.net/job/mingwGitDevEnv-test/ws/test-results/t0060-path-utils.sh/*view*/ 
> [4] 
> http://mingwgitdevenv.cloudapp.net/job/mingwGitDevEnv-test/ws/mingwGitDevEnv/ 
> [5] http://mingwgitdevenv.cloudapp.net/job/mingwGitDevEnv-test/38/ 
>
> -- 
> Sebastian Schuberth 
>

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