Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2016, #06; Mon, 28)
- From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
- Date
- Dec 1, 2016, 07:19 UTC
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- <20161201071906.unrerembedeja3wa@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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- <fa54bb08-4206-ebd5-6808-f7de6cf4b9a2@kdbg.org>
On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 08:09:16AM +0100, Johannes Sixt wrote:
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> Am 01.12.2016 um 00:40 schrieb Jeff King:
> > 20813 access("su:b/../.git/modules/su:b/refs", X_OK) = 0
>
> Side note: where does this weirdness "su:b" come from? (I haven't looked at
> any of the patches, yet, let alone tested.) Colons in file or directory
> names won't work on Windows (in the way one would expect).It's explicitly used in the test, I assume to check that the recursive grep is not confused into treating the name as a tree-ish.
I think it would have to either be marked with a prereq on Windows, or modified to do the whole thing in-index (and use "grep --cached").
-Peff