git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] interpret-trailers: add option for in-place editing

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 15, 2016, 17:24 UTC
Message-ID
<xmqqa8o6kb6m.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To
<20160115103402.GC21205@distanz.ch>
Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> writes:
Show 23 quoted lines
>> > +test_expect_success POSIXPERM,SANITY "in-place editing doesn't clobber original file on error" '
>> > +	cat basic_message >message &&
>> > +	chmod -r message &&
>> > +	test_must_fail git interpret-trailers --trailer "Reviewed-by: Alice" --in-place message &&
>> > +	chmod +r message &&
>> > +	test_cmp message basic_message
>> > +'
>> 
>> If for some reason interpret-trailers fails to fail, this would
>> leave an unreadable 'message' in the trash directory.  Maybe no
>> other tests that come after this one want to be able to read the
>> contents of the file right now, but this is an accident waiting to
>> happen:
>> 
>> 	cat basic_message >message &&
>> +       test_when_finished "chmod +r message" &&
>>         chmod -r message &&
>>         test_must_fail ... &&
>> 	chmod +r message &&
>>         test_cmp ...
>
> Indeed, I forgot about this. I saw you already folded in the missing
> 'chmod +r message' in your tree. Thanks for that!
I did no such thing, though.
Previous: Tobias KlauserNext: Tobias Klauser
Message 6 of 17 in “Add in-place editing support to git interpret-trailers”
  1. 0/2 Add in-place editing support to git interpret-trailersTobias Klauser, Jan 14, 2016
  2. 1/2 trailer: allow to write to files other than stdoutTobias Klauser, Jan 14, 2016
  3. 2/2 interpret-trailers: add option for in-place editingTobias Klauser, Jan 14, 2016
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 14, 2016
  5. Tobias KlauserJan 15, 2016
  6. Junio C HamanoJan 15, 2016
  7. Tobias KlauserJan 15, 2016
  8. Eric SunshineJan 18, 2016
  9. Junio C HamanoJan 19, 2016
  10. Eric SunshineJan 19, 2016
  11. Eric SunshineJan 19, 2016
  12. Junio C HamanoJan 19, 2016
  13. Eric SunshineJan 19, 2016
  14. Junio C HamanoJan 19, 2016
  15. Eric SunshineJan 20, 2016
  16. Eric SunshineJan 18, 2016
  17. Tobias KlauserJan 19, 2016

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.