From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:10:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix t9200 on case insensitive file systems
Message-ID: <20121028111053.GC11434@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <201210261818.25620.tboegi@web.de>

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 06:18:24PM +0200, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:

> t9200 defines $CVSROOT where cvs should init its repository
> $CVSROOT is set to $PWD/cvsroot.
> cvs init is supposed to create the repository inside $PWD/cvsroot/CVSROOT
> 
> "cvs init" (e.g. version  1.11.23) checks if the last element of the path is
> "CVSROOT", and if a directory with e.g. $PWD/cvsroot/CVSROOT already exists.
> 
> For such a $CVSROOT cvs refuses to init a repository here:
> "Cannot initialize repository under existing CVSROOT:
> 
> On a case insenstive file system cvsroot and CVSROOT are the same directories
> and t9200 fails.
> 
> Solution: use $PWD/tmp/cvsroot instead of cvsroot $PWD/cvsroot

Wouldn't tmp/cvsroot have the same problem, since the basename is still
cvsroot?

> diff --git a/t/t9200-git-cvsexportcommit.sh b/t/t9200-git-cvsexportcommit.sh
> index b59be9a..69934b2 100755
> --- a/t/t9200-git-cvsexportcommit.sh
> +++ b/t/t9200-git-cvsexportcommit.sh
> @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ then
>      test_done
>  fi
>  
> -CVSROOT=$PWD/cvsroot
> +CVSROOT=$PWD/tmpcvsroot

Ah, but here you do something different, which makes sense. Should I
tweak the commit message?

-Peff