Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2017, #04; Mon, 23)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 25, 2017, 17:01 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1701251800120.3469@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <20170124132749.l3ezupyitvxe4t2l@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi Peff,

On Tue, 24 Jan 2017, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:04:21AM +0100, Lars Schneider wrote:
> 
> > "fsck: prepare dummy objects for --connectivity-check" seems to
> > make t1450-fsck.sh fail on macOS with TravisCI:
> >
> > Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/travis/build/git/git/t/trash directory.t1450-fsck/connectivity-only/.git/
> > [master (root-commit) 86520b7] empty
> >  Author: A U Thor <author@example.com>
> >  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >  create mode 100644 empty
> >  create mode 100644 empty.t
> > override r--r--r--  travis/staff for .git/objects/e6/9de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391? (y/n [n]) not overwritten
> > dangling blob c21c9352f7526e9576892a6631e0e8cf1fccd34d
> 
> Looks like "mv" prompts and then fails to move the file (so we get the
> dangling blob for the source blob, and fsck doesn't report failure
> because we didn't actually corrupt the destination blob).

IIRC I had similar problems years ago, on a machine where the administrator defined mandatory aliases, including mv="mv -i".

Ciao, Johannes