From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 17:50:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t5813: avoid creating urls that break on cygwin
Message-ID: <20151109175025.GC29468@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20151109174932.GA14146@spirit>

On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 06:49:35PM +0100, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:

> When passed an ssh:// url, git strips ssh://host from the url but does
> not remove leading slashes from the path. So when this test used
> ssh://remote//path/to/pwd, the path accessed by our fake SSH is
> //path/to/pwd, which cygwin interprets as a UNC path, causing the test
> to fail.
> 
> We may want to actually fix this in git itself, making it remove extra
> slashes from urls before feeding them to transports or helpers, but
> that's for another topic as it could cause regressions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
> ---
> 
> You're right of course. Somehow I remembered that the fake ssh was doing the
> stripping, but didn't check that when writing the commit message. How about
> this version?

Looks good. Thanks.

-Peff