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H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
Date
Feb 8, 2008, 15:50 UTC
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<20080208165008.52630d36@pc09.procura.nl>

I'm (again) trying to port git-1.5.4 to HP-UX, and I've already got rather far, but I'm hitting some stuff I cannot explain.

t5405-send-pack-rewind.sh fails the 'git fetch .. master:master' part in the setup, as deep down, read_branches_file () is called with in remote the name "..".

The file that it tries to open using git_path () is ".git/branches/.." That is weird. That is not a file, but a dir. "../.git/branches" would be more logical, but whatever. HP-UX 11.00 will gladly return a valid FILE * for opening a directory with fopen (), which, when read, will return anything but what is expected. So, maybe read_branches_file () should be protected against opening anything but files. Maybe with some stat () and S_ISREG ()'s.

Or has something gone wrong earlier on?
In my case, the returned url is 'l', which cannot be opened:

fatal: 'l': unable to chdir or not a git archive fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

which is cast from upload-pack.c:main ()
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H.Merijn Brand         Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/)
using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x  on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11,
& 11.23, SuSE 10.1 & 10.2, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin.       http://qa.perl.org
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