Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] t0027: Don't use git commit <empty-pathspec>

["Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 10:21:19AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > tboegi@web.de writes:
> >
> >> From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
> >>
> >> Replace `git commit -m "comment" ""` with `git commit -m "comment"` to
> >> remove the empty path spec.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
> >> ---
> >>  t/t0027-auto-crlf.sh | 2 +-
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > This looks a bit strange.  The intent seems to commit all changes
> > made in the working tree, so I'd understand it if it replaced the
> > empty string with a single dot.
> >
> > I also thought that we deprecated use of an empty string as "match
> > all" pathspec recently, and expected that this to break.
> >
> >     ... goes and looks ...
> >
> > Indeed, 229a95aa ("t0027: do not use an empty string as a pathspec
> > element", 2017-06-23) does exactly that.
> 
> OK, I think I can safely omit this patch, because
> 
>  (1) when 2/2 is queued on top of tb/check-crlf-for-safe-crlf,
>      because ex/deprecate-empty-pathspec-as-match-all is not yet in
>      the topic, an empty pathspec still means "match all" and
>      nothing breaks; and
> 
>  (2) when tb/check-crlf-for-safe-crlf plus 2/2 is merged to any
>      branch with ex/deprecate-empty-pathspec-as-match-all, the topic
>      already fixes what this 1/2 tries to
> 
> Thanks for being thorough, though.
> 

Sure, the credit goes 100% to you:

commit 229a95aafa77b583b46a3156b4fad469c264ddfd
Author: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date:   Fri Jun 23 11:04:14 2017 -0700

    t0027: do not use an empty string as a pathspec element

My brain did just assume that this had mad it to master, sorry for the noise