# workaround fat/ntfs deficiencies for t3600-rm.sh (git-rm)

1 messages from 2006-03-03 to 2006-03-03. Participants: Alex Riesen.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/3539

## Alex Riesen, 2006-03-03 10:20

Subject: workaround fat/ntfs deficiencies for t3600-rm.sh (git-rm)
Message-ID: <81b0412b0603030220v527779a3p4818309443e330cb@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/81b0412b0603030220v527779a3p4818309443e330cb%40mail.gmail.com

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Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <ariesen@harmanbecker.com>
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chmod u-w and even chmod a-w dont work on fat and ntfs.
The actually do something, but rm a file from that directory
will succeed anyway. That's windows permission model to you...


>From nobody Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Mar 3 11:15:05 2006 +0100
Subject: workaround fat/ntfs deficiencies for t3600-rm.sh (git-rm)

---

 t/t3600-rm.sh |   23 +++++++++++++++++------
 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

583a9faeab3a200fc970577458b7827d86aa7df1
diff --git a/t/t3600-rm.sh b/t/t3600-rm.sh
index cabfadd..d1947e1 100755
--- a/t/t3600-rm.sh
+++ b/t/t3600-rm.sh
@@ -8,11 +8,20 @@ test_description='Test of the various op
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
 # Setup some files to be removed, some with funny characters
-touch -- foo bar baz 'space embedded' 'tab	embedded' 'newline
-embedded' -q
-git-add -- foo bar baz 'space embedded' 'tab	embedded' 'newline
-embedded' -q
-git-commit -m "add files"
+touch -- foo bar baz 'space embedded' -q
+git-add -- foo bar baz 'space embedded' -q
+git-commit -m "add normal files"
+test_tabs=y
+if touch -- 'tab	embedded' 'newline
+embedded'
+then
+git-add -- 'tab	embedded' 'newline
+embedded'
+git-commit -m "add files with tabs and newlines"
+else
+    say 'Your filesystem does not allow tabs in filenames.'
+    test_tabs=n
+fi
 
 test_expect_success \
     'Pre-check that foo exists and is in index before git-rm foo' \
@@ -42,16 +51,18 @@ test_expect_success \
     'Test that "git-rm -- -q" succeeds (remove a file that looks like an option)' \
     'git-rm -- -q'
 
-test_expect_success \
+test "$test_tabs" = y && test_expect_success \
     "Test that \"git-rm -f\" succeeds with embedded space, tab, or newline characters." \
     "git-rm -f 'space embedded' 'tab	embedded' 'newline
 embedded'"
 
+if test "$test_tabs" = y; then
 chmod u-w .
 test_expect_failure \
     'Test that "git-rm -f" fails if its rm fails' \
     'git-rm -f baz'
 chmod u+w .
+fi
 
 test_expect_success \
     'When the rm in "git-rm -f" fails, it should not remove the file from the index' \
-- 
1.2.4.ga091




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