Re: [PATCH] t/Makefile: make sure that file names are truly platform-independent

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 16, 2016, 10:07 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqinv1do2d.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmvkddoqi.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> The trick to catch non-ascii depends on core.quotepath set to true
> (which is the default).  You would need to run ls-files with an
> explicit "-c core.quotepath=false" to be safe.
> ...
> The invocation of "git -c core.quotepath=false ls-files" needs to at
> least have 2>/dev/null to squelch an unnecessary error message.  In
> such a scenario, we may miss a new offending pathname, but we will
> not have false positive and I think that is the best we can do.
>
> Thanks.

Needless to say (1) both "false" should have been "true"; (2) I shouldn't be crawling out of bed and typing with hazy brain early in the morning.

Sorry for typoes and thinkos.