From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 07:19:06 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2016, #06; Mon, 28)
Message-ID: <20161201071906.unrerembedeja3wa@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <fa54bb08-4206-ebd5-6808-f7de6cf4b9a2@kdbg.org>

On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 08:09:16AM +0100, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> 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