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Re: [PATCH] t7610: use "file:///dev/null", not "/dev/null", fixes MinGW

From
Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date
Nov 16, 2022, 01:07 UTC
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On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 12:40:14AM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
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> On MinGW the "/dev/null" is translated to "nul" on command-lines, even
> though as in this case it'll never end up referring to an actual file.
>
> So on Windows the fix for the previous "example.com" timeout issue in
> 8354cf752ec (t7610: fix flaky timeout issue, don't clone from
> example.com, 2022-11-05) would yield:
>
>   fatal: repo URL: 'nul' must be absolute or begin with ./|../
>
> Let's evade this yet again by prefixing this with "file://", which
> makes this pass in the Windows CI.

Thanks very much. I just picked this up on top of my 'ab/t7610-timeout' branch and pushed it out to ttaylorr/git to double-check your results against CI. (Not that I don't trust you, of course, but I'm feeling like I should be extra-cautious ;-)).

Assuming that all looks good, then I'll push out a new version of 'next' and dependent branches to the usual spots so that we can get 'next' back to green.

Thanks for working on this so quickly.

Thanks, Taylor

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  1. t7610: fix flaky timeout issue, don't clone from example.comÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Nov 5, 2022
  2. Taylor BlauNov 9, 2022
  3. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonNov 9, 2022
  4. Taylor BlauNov 10, 2022
  5. Taylor BlauNov 15, 2022
  6. t7610: use "file:///dev/null", not "/dev/null", fixes MinGWÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Nov 15, 2022
  7. Taylor BlauNov 16, 2022
  8. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonNov 17, 2022
  9. Taylor BlauNov 17, 2022

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