From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:03:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] t3400-rebase: Move detached HEAD check earlier
Message-ID: <7vmyc45p2w.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1235902803-32528-1-git-send-email-j6t@kdbg.org>

Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:

> Long story: The test that preceded the one in question tests that a
> rebased commit degrades from a content change with mode change to a
> mere mode change.  But on Windows, where we have core.filemode=false,
> the original commit did not record the mode change, and so the rebase
> operation did not rebase anything.  This caused the subsequent detached
> HEAD test to fail.

Thanks.

I'll apply it as is since it is very close to the real release, but I
think a more suitable fix would be to make tests less dependent on the
outcome of earlier tests.