Re: t3701 fails if core.filemode disabled

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 18, 2008, 19:08 UTC
Message-ID: <20080518190839.GC15506@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080518152337.GB3058@steel.home>

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 05:23:37PM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:

> This is on Cygwin, yes. I have the core.filemode disabled in
> ~/.gitconfig. How about stopping the test before the failing portion
> (only the last two fail, below)?

What's in your ~/.gitconfig shouldn't have any effect (the test scripts take care to avoid looking at anything outside of your git directory). But presumably this test is broken on Cygwin, anyway?

I don't mind disabling these tests if they don't make sense on certain platforms, but regarding your specific proposal:

  - can you confirm that the test doesn't make sense, and not that it is
    simply broken on cygwin? Does changing your ~/.gitconfig's
    core.filemode make a difference? It shouldn't, but that could be
    a bug in test-lib. What happens if you run the test manually? Does
    git-add just not prompt for the mode change?

  - if the tests are to be disabled, I think it is better to
       if tests_make_sense; do
         tests
       fi
    rather than exiting the script. It is less error prone if tests get
    added later.

  - What is the right tests_make_sense? You are checking core.filemode,
    but that should not be leaking in from your .gitconfig. Does cygwin
    have a different defaults for that value? Is it actually a matter of
    being on a filesystem which doesn't properly handle the executable
    bit?

-Peff