From: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:32:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH JGIT] Ensure created test repositories use canonical paths
Message-ID: <2c6b72b30908212032t39a4896x3308148c44692a80@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200908210035.10825.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

[With correct CC list. Sorry for the resend Robin]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 18:35, Robin
Rosenberg<robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> wrote:
> onsdag 19 augusti 2009 15:18:11 skrev Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>:
>> Fixes breakage in the RepositoryCacheTest when running tests using:
>>
>>       mvn -f ./jgit-maven/jgit/pom.xml test
>> [...]
>> @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ public void setUp() throws Exception {
>>               trash = new File(trashParent,"trash"+System.currentTimeMillis()+"."+(testcount++));
>> -             trash_git = new File(trash, ".git");
>> +             trash_git = new File(trash, ".git").getCanonicalFile();
>> @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ protected Repository createNewEmptyRepo() throws IOException {
>>       protected Repository createNewEmptyRepo(boolean bare) throws IOException {
>>               final File newTestRepo = new File(trashParent, "new"
>>                               + System.currentTimeMillis() + "." + (testcount++)
>> -                             + (bare ? "" : "/") + ".git");
>> +                             + (bare ? "" : "/") + ".git").getCanonicalFile();
>
> We use getCanonicalFile here and Repository.gitDir  is initialized with getAbsoluteDir.

BTW, a simpler fix would be to initialize trashParent to a canonical
path, which might be less intrusive.

> Does this work on all platforms?

I have only tested on Linux.

> Seems linux normalized things when you do things like, but I'm not sure that happens everywhere.

If you think it is a problem, let's drop the patch. It just seemed
like a simple way to increase robustness.

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Jonas Fonseca