Re: [PATCH 1/2] tree-walk: be more specific about corrupt tree errors

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 27, 2016, 05:35 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqbmz9sy4y.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160927051453.yuvrnao5ldjpzhcj@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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>> +test_expect_success 'malformed mode in tree' '
>> +	test_must_fail git hash-object -t tree ../t1007/tree-with-malformed-mode 2>err &&
>> +	grep "malformed mode in tree entry for tree" err
>> +'
>
> This ".." will break when the test is run with "--root". You should use
>
>   "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t1007/...
>
> instead. And ditto in the second test, of course.

Ahh, that explains the breakage I saw.

Thanks.