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Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] t0001: fix on case-insensitive filesystems

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jun 21, 2019, 14:34 UTC
Message-ID
<nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1906211632570.44@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
In-Reply-To
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[Re-sending, as the Git mailing list seems to have decided to silently drop this patch, I cannot see it on public-inbox.org, at least]

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

On a case-insensitive filesystem, such as HFS+ or NTFS, it is possible that the idea Bash has of the current directory differs in case from what Git thinks it is. That's totally okay, though, and we should not expect otherwise.

On Windows, for example, when you call
	cd C:\GIT-SDK-64

in a PowerShell and there exists a directory called `C:\git-sdk-64`, the current directory will be reported in all upper-case. Even in a Bash that you might call from that PowerShell. Git, however, will have normalized this via `GetFinalPathByHandle()`, and the expectation in t0001 that the recorded gitdir will match what `pwd` says will be violated.

Let's address this by forcing the comparison to be case-insensitive when `core.ignoreCase` is `true`.

Reported by Jameson Miller.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 t/t0001-init.sh | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/t/t0001-init.sh b/t/t0001-init.sh
index 42a263cada..68f713884f 100755
--- a/t/t0001-init.sh
+++ b/t/t0001-init.sh
@@ -307,10 +307,22 @@ test_expect_success 'init prefers command line to GIT_DIR' '
 	test_path_is_missing otherdir/refs
 '

+downcase_on_case_insensitive_fs () {
+	test true = "$(git config --get --type=bool core.ignorecase)" ||
+	return 0
+
+	for f
+	do
+		tr A-Z a-z <"$f" >"$f".downcased &&
+		mv -f "$f".downcased "$f" || return 1
+	done
+}
+
 test_expect_success 'init with separate gitdir' '
 	rm -rf newdir &&
 	git init --separate-git-dir realgitdir newdir &&
 	echo "gitdir: $(pwd)/realgitdir" >expected &&
+	downcase_on_case_insensitive_fs expected newdir/.git &&
 	test_cmp expected newdir/.git &&
 	test_path_is_dir realgitdir/refs
 '
@@ -365,6 +377,7 @@ test_expect_success 're-init to update git link' '
 	git init --separate-git-dir ../surrealgitdir
 	) &&
 	echo "gitdir: $(pwd)/surrealgitdir" >expected &&
+	downcase_on_case_insensitive_fs expected newdir/.git &&
 	test_cmp expected newdir/.git &&
 	test_path_is_dir surrealgitdir/refs &&
 	test_path_is_missing realgitdir/refs
@@ -378,6 +391,7 @@ test_expect_success 're-init to move gitdir' '
 	git init --separate-git-dir ../realgitdir
 	) &&
 	echo "gitdir: $(pwd)/realgitdir" >expected &&
+	downcase_on_case_insensitive_fs expected newdir/.git &&
 	test_cmp expected newdir/.git &&
 	test_path_is_dir realgitdir/refs
 '
--
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  1. 0/1 Fix a test on NTFS (and probably HFS+)Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Jun 8, 2019
  2. 1/1 t0001: fix on case-insensitive filesystemsJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Jun 8, 2019
  3. Martin ÅgrenJun 9, 2019
  4. Johannes SchindelinJun 19, 2019
  5. brian m. carlsonJun 9, 2019
  6. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2019
  7. Johannes SchindelinJun 19, 2019
  8. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 21, 2019
  9. Johannes SchindelinJun 21, 2019
  10. Junio C HamanoJun 21, 2019
  11. Johannes SchindelinJun 24, 2019
  12. Junio C HamanoJun 24, 2019
  13. Johannes SchindelinJun 24, 2019
  14. Junio C HamanoJun 24, 2019
  15. Johannes SchindelinJun 24, 2019
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  17. vger vs GitGitGadget, was Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] t0001: fix on case-insensitive filesystemsJohannes Schindelin, Jun 25, 2019
  18. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2019

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