From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:45:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 4/4] t/t8006: test textconv support for blame
Message-ID: <vpqzkzb9lml.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTil7Y6PPkbmzuID4vY_fhEwvP4qa2UG5jC1qLtTG@mail.gmail.com>

Diane Gasselin <diane.gasselin@ensimag.imag.fr> writes:

>>> +test_expect_success 'setup ' '
>>> +     echo test 1 >one.bin &&
>>> +     echo test number 2 >two.bin &&
>>> +     ln one.bin link.bin &&
>>
>> Do you need a hard link? Can't you just copy the file at the right time?
>>
>
> At first, we wanted to test how links handle textconv but it behaves
> as regular file so the test is not really relevant. It will be
> deleted.

You do want to test what happens for _symbolic_ links (stored as blob
whose content is the target of the link IIRC). You probably don't want
to run the textconv filter on link targets. I guess you meant "ln -s"
here.

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Matthieu Moy
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