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Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] t1450: use mv -f when overwriting a read only file

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 25, 2026, 04:31 UTC
Message-ID
<xmqq5wyqz9i4.fsf@gitster.g>
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<20261024183056.6342-1-tboegi@web.de>
tboegi@web.de writes:
> So it was not the shell being old - but /bin/mv
And the flag you want to use is not -v but -f?
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>
> t/t1450-fsck.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/t1450-fsck.sh b/t/t1450-fsck.sh
> index 16cc5d5dcb..335dcbf0af 100755
> --- a/t/t1450-fsck.sh
> +++ b/t/t1450-fsck.sh
> @@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ test_expect_success 'rev-list --verify-objects with truncated loose blob' '
>  		# Truncate the loose blob such that its header can still be
>  		# parsed, but reading the object data fails mid-stream.
>  		test_copy_bytes 64 <"$obj" >obj.tmp &&
> -		mv obj.tmp "$obj" &&
> +		mv -v obj.tmp "$obj" &&
>  
>  		test_must_fail git rev-list --verify-objects "$blob" 2>err &&
>  		test_grep "hash mismatch" err
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Message 10 of 15 in “What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2026, #06)”
  1. Junio C HamanoOct 16, 2026
  2. Torsten BögershausenOct 20, 2026
  3. Patrick SteinhardtOct 21, 2026
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 21, 2026
  5. Torsten BögershausenOct 22, 2026
  6. Patrick SteinhardtOct 22, 2026
  7. 1/1 t1450: use mv -f when overwriting a read only filetboegi@web.de, Oct 24, 2026
  8. Tuomas AholaOct 24, 2026
  9. SZEDER GáborOct 24, 2026
  10. Junio C HamanoOct 25, 2026
  11. 1/1 t1450: use mv -f when overwriting a read only filetboegi@web.de, Oct 25, 2026
  12. Tuomas AholaOct 25, 2026
  13. Torsten BögershausenOct 25, 2026
  14. Junio C HamanoOct 25, 2026
  15. 1/1 t1450: use 'mv -f' when overwriting a read-only filetboegi@web.de, Oct 25, 2026

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