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Re: Commit cce8d6fdb introduces file t/t5100/nul, git tree is now incompatible with Cygwin (and probably Windows)

From
Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Date
May 26, 2008, 22:49 UTC
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<483B3E86.5020100@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
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Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> Hi,
>
>
>   
> I fail to see how Cygwin is so special as to merit a falsification of 
> history.
>
>   
>> I don't have access to a linux box today, so I can't manipulate master 
>> to find if that branch with your patch would work right now.
>>     
>
> Sure you can.  You should be able to "git mv t/t5100/nul t/t5100/nul-file" 
> and then editing t/t5100-*.sh to refer to nul-file instead of nul.
>
> Hth,
> Dscho
>

The above two points are related: the current master causes git to abort before writing the index:

 >git checkout -f origin/master
error: git-checkout-index: unable to create file t/t5100/nul (File exists)
 >git mv t/t5100/nul t/t5100/nul-file
fatal: not under version control, source=t/t5100/nul, 
destination=t/t5100/nul-file

So, there is now a range of git's history that is unusable (and non-bisectable) on Windows, at least from the porcelain. And apparently, somewhere in that unusable history, a change was introduced that causes test failure on Cygwin. Great...

Mark
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  1. Mark LevedahlMay 26, 2008
  2. Johannes SchindelinMay 26, 2008
  3. Mark LevedahlMay 26, 2008
  4. Johannes SchindelinMay 26, 2008
  5. Mark LevedahlMay 26, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinMay 26, 2008
  7. Johannes SchindelinMay 26, 2008
  8. Eric BlakeMay 27, 2008
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 28, 2008
  10. Wincent ColaiutaMay 28, 2008
  11. Lea WiemannMay 28, 2008
  12. Wincent ColaiutaMay 28, 2008
  13. Jakub NarebskiMay 28, 2008
  14. Johannes SchindelinMay 29, 2008
  15. Wincent ColaiutaMay 29, 2008
  16. Johannes SchindelinMay 29, 2008
  17. Wincent ColaiutaMay 29, 2008
  18. Steffen ProhaskaMay 31, 2008
  19. gitweb: Remove gitweb/test/ directoryJakub Narebski, May 31, 2008
  20. Wincent ColaiutaMay 31, 2008
  21. Johannes SchindelinMay 31, 2008
  22. Jakub NarebskiJun 1, 2008
  23. Kay SieversJun 1, 2008
  24. Wincent ColaiutaJun 1, 2008
  25. Junio C HamanoJun 1, 2008
  26. Jakub NarebskiJun 1, 2008
  27. Avery PennarunMay 28, 2008
  28. Junio C HamanoMay 28, 2008
  29. Sverre RabbelierMay 28, 2008
  30. Avery PennarunMay 28, 2008
  31. Junio C HamanoMay 28, 2008
  32. Daniel BarkalowMay 28, 2008
  33. Junio C HamanoMay 28, 2008
  34. Daniel BarkalowMay 28, 2008
  35. Junio C HamanoMay 28, 2008
  36. "git checkout -- paths..." should signal errorJunio C Hamano, May 28, 2008
  37. Marius Storm-OlsenMay 29, 2008
  38. Daniel BarkalowMay 29, 2008
  39. Daniel BarkalowMay 28, 2008
  40. Makefile: wt-status.h is also a lib headerJohannes Schindelin, May 26, 2008
  41. Junio C HamanoMay 26, 2008
  42. Johannes SchindelinMay 26, 2008

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