Re: [PATCH] t7500: fix tests with absolute path following ":(optional)" on Windows

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 20, 2025, 16:17 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqh5vt1rb0.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <6a83c7d1-7cd4-432e-a0ab-7b18ce3af08d@kdbg.org>

Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:

> Existing test cases that expect that the specified file does not exist
> are not incorrect (after all, git.exe will not find /c/dir/template).
> Yet, they are conceptually incorrect.

Wow, if I am counting correctly, the oldest one is from July 2007, and we have been running these tests without anybody noticing? That's just ... wow.

> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
> ---
>  It's pure coincidence that I had a closer look at t7500 today.

Thanks, will queue.

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