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[PATCH js/submodule-relative] t7400: avoid path mangling issues

From
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
Jun 14, 2012, 12:10 UTC
Message-ID
<4FD9D4B3.9060805@viscovery.net>
From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>

A recently introduced test uses an absolute path. But when run on Windows using the MSYS bash, such a path is mangled into a Windows style path when it is passed to 'git config'. The subsequent 'test' then compares the mangled path to the unmangled version and reports a failure.

A path beginning with two slashes denotes a network directory (//server/share path) and is not mangled. Use that trick to side-step the issue. Just in case that 'git submodule init' regresses in such a way that it accesses the URL, use a path name that is unlikely to exist on POSIX systems, and that cannot be a server name on Windows.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
---
 Sorry, Jon, Junio, for the resend. Forgot to Cc the list.
 t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh b/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
index a899e6d..c73bec9 100755
--- a/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
+++ b/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
@@ -510,14 +510,19 @@ test_expect_success '../subrepo works with port-qualified URL - ssh://hostname:2
 	)
 '
 
-test_expect_success '../subrepo path works with local path - /foo/repo' '
+# About the choice of the path in the next test:
+# - double-slash side-steps path mangling issues on Windows
+# - it is still an absolute local path
+# - there cannot be a server with a blank in its name just in case the
+#   path is used erroneously to access a //server/share style path
+test_expect_success '../subrepo path works with local path - //somewhere else/repo' '
 	(
 		cd reltest &&
 		cp pristine-.git-config .git/config &&
 		cp pristine-.gitmodules .gitmodules &&
-		git config remote.origin.url /foo/repo &&
+		git config remote.origin.url "//somewhere else/repo" &&
 		git submodule init &&
-		test "$(git config submodule.sub.url)" = /foo/subrepo
+		test "$(git config submodule.sub.url)" = "//somewhere else/subrepo"
 	)
 '
 
-- 
1.7.11.rc3.1188.ga03e3fc
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