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Re: [PATCH 14/13] test-wildmatch: fix tests that fail on Windows due to path mangling

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 11, 2012, 10:47 UTC
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Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
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> Patterns beginning with a slash are converted to Windows paths before
> test-wildmatch gets to see them. Avoid this case by always writing
> XXX/abc instead of /abc. The leading XXX will be removed by
> test-wildmatch itself before processing.
>
> Any patterns beginning with a forward slash is rejected by
> test-wildmatch to avoid the same fault in future.

The title taken together with the above explanation makes it sound as if wildmatch code does not work with the pattern /foo on Windows at all and to avoid the issue (instead of fixing the breakage) this patch removes such tests.

But I suspect that is not what is going on. Perhaps the title of the change is more like "test-wildmatch: avoid Windows path mangling" and explain with "On Windows, any command line argument that begins with a slash is mangled as if it were a full pathname. This causes patterns beginning with a slash not to be passed to test-wildmatch correctly" or something?

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Message 28 of 55 in “nd/attr-match-more-optim, nd/wildmatch and as/check-ignore”
  1. Nguyễn Thái Ngọc DuyOct 15, 2012
  2. 1/6 exclude: stricten a length check in EXC_FLAG_ENDSWITH caseNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  3. 2/6 exclude: split basename matching code into a separate functionNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  4. 3/6 exclude: fix a bug in prefix compare optimizationNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  5. 4/6 exclude: split pathname matching code into a separate functionNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  6. 5/6 gitignore: make pattern parsing code a separate functionNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  7. 6/6 attr: more matching optimizations from .gitignoreNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  8. 01/13 ctype: make sane_ctype[] const arrayNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  9. 02/13 ctype: support iscntrl, ispunct, isxdigit and isprintNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  10. 03/13 Import wildmatch from rsyncNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  11. 04/13 wildmatch: remove unnecessary functionsNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  12. 05/13 wildmatch: follow Git's coding conventionNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  13. 06/13 Integrate wildmatch to gitNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  14. 07/13 t3070: disable unreliable fnmatch testsNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  15. 08/13 wildmatch: make wildmatch's return value compatible with fnmatchNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  16. 09/13 wildmatch: remove static variable force_lower_caseNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  17. 10/13 wildmatch: fix case-insensitive matchingNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  18. 11/13 wildmatch: adjust "**" behaviorNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  19. 12/13 wildmatch: make /**/ match zero or more directoriesNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  20. 13/13 Support "**" wildcard in .gitignore and .gitattributesNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  21. 14/13 wildmatch: fix tests that fail on Windows due to path manglingJohannes Sixt, Nov 4, 2012
  22. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyNov 6, 2012
  23. Johannes SixtNov 7, 2012
  24. 14/13 test-wildmatch: fix tests that fail on Windows due to path manglingNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Nov 11, 2012
  25. 15/13 compat/fnmatch: fix off-by-one character class's length checkNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Nov 11, 2012
  26. Johannes SixtNov 13, 2012
  27. Johannes SixtNov 20, 2012
  28. Junio C HamanoNov 11, 2012
  29. 14/13 test-wildmatch: avoid Windows path manglingNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Nov 13, 2012
  30. Johannes SixtNov 13, 2012
  31. 14/13 test-wildmatch: avoid Windows path manglingJohannes Sixt, Nov 20, 2012
  32. Junio C HamanoNov 20, 2012
  33. 14/13 test-wildmatch: avoid Windows path manglingJohannes Sixt, Nov 21, 2012
  34. 01/12 dir.c: rename cryptic 'which' variable to more consistent nameNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  35. 02/12 dir.c: rename path_excluded() to is_path_excluded()Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  36. 03/12 dir.c: rename excluded_from_list() to is_excluded_from_list()Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  37. 04/12 dir.c: rename excluded() to is_excluded()Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  38. 05/12 dir.c: refactor is_excluded_from_list()Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  39. 06/12 dir.c: refactor is_excluded()Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  40. 07/12 dir.c: refactor is_path_excluded()Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  41. 08/12 dir.c: keep track of where patterns came fromNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  42. 09/12 dir.c: refactor treat_gitlinks()Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  43. 10/12 pathspec.c: move reusable code from builtin/add.cNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  44. 11/12 dir.c: provide free_directory() for reclaiming dir_struct memoryNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  45. 12/12 Add git-check-ignore sub-commandNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 15, 2012
  46. Junio C HamanoOct 15, 2012
  47. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 16, 2012
  48. Adam SpiersOct 16, 2012
  49. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 16, 2012
  50. Adam SpiersOct 16, 2012
  51. Junio C HamanoOct 16, 2012
  52. Adam SpiersDec 17, 2012
  53. t0007: fix tests on WindowsJohannes Sixt, Nov 4, 2012
  54. Jeff KingNov 8, 2012
  55. Junio C HamanoOct 15, 2012

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