From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 18:08:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/19] tests: add tests for the bash prompt functions in the completion script
Message-ID: <7vzk9hrzwf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4FAA25A7.4020300@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
> Subject: [PATCH] fixup! tests: add tests for the bash prompt functions in the
>  completion script
>
> - $TRASH_DIRECTORY is /c/dir style path, but git produces c:/dir style
>   paths. Use $(pwd), which is short for $(pwd -W) that produces the
>   latter, to assemble expected test data and paths read by git.

This comes up very often whenever somebody (including me) touches test
scripts.  We do have a write-up in t/README in "Dos and Don'ts" section,
but apparently that is not sufficient to avoid fix-ups.

Would it be possible to arrange so that $TRASH_DIRECTORY, $TEST_DIRECTORY
and $PWD are set to c:/dir style paths in Windows environment?  What would
we break if we did so?

The other direction of changing the Windows port of git to produce /c/dir
style paths would probably not work, as it would involve ripping out the
path mangling feature of bash in MSYS, which is done for some reason, I
presume.