From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 16:11:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix expected values of setup tests on Windows
Message-ID: <201012311711.06989.j6t@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=uCCfBFBpC=+V9RpaXRXiiPYp-tZXBxAVNB7+e@mail.gmail.com>

On Freitag, 31. Dezember 2010, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> 2010/12/31 Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>:
> > On Windows, bash stores absolute path names in shell variables in POSIX
> > format that begins with a slash, rather than in drive-letter format; such
> > a value is converted to the latter format when it is passed to a non-MSYS
> > program such as git.
>
> Hmm.. from test-lib.sh:
>
> TEST_DIRECTORY=$(pwd)
> test="trash directory.$(basename "$0" .sh)"
> TRASH_DIRECTORY="$TEST_DIRECTORY/$test"
>
> I'm just curious how these lines make $TRASH_DIRECTORY in POSIX format,
> while
>
> here=$(pwd)
>
> in your patch does not. Does bash auto convert value in
> TRASH_DIRECTORY="$TE..." line?

No. When this line is executed:

TEST_DIRECTORY=$(pwd)

$(pwd) still has its default behavior to return the POSIX style path. pwd is 
redefined to pwd -W only later.

I'm hesitant to redefine pwd earlier in test-lib.sh, though, because we would 
have to audit all uses of TEST_DIRECTORY for whether POSIX style paths or 
drive-letter paths are needed.

-- Hannes