Re: Possible minor bug in Git

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

On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 04:18:23PM +0100, Giuseppe Crinò wrote:
> OK, I successfully built git on Windows (thanks Johannes!) and I'm now able to run it.
>
> As of 9f16cdd I can successfully reproduce the bug.
>
> Interestingly enough, I can reproduce the bug even for /usr/bin/git running inside Windows Subsystem for Linux. Part of the reason might be that both relies on the same lstat() call... (Note: `stat` inside the WSL is case _insensitive_).
>
> Now: what is the expected result for git running inside Windows? Should it die saying "fatal: pathspec ... did not match any files"?
>
> If that's the case, is the following a valid test case?
>
> 	diff --git a/t/t3700-add.sh b/t/t3700-add.sh
> 	index 8ee4fc70ad..fadd7c74f6 100755
> 	--- a/t/t3700-add.sh
> 	+++ b/t/t3700-add.sh
> 	@@ -61,6 +61,11 @@ test_expect_success 'git add: filemode=0 should not get confused by symlink' '
> 		test_mode_in_index 120000 xfoo2
> 	 '
>
> 	+test_expect_success 'git add: pathspec is case-sensitive' '
> 	+       echo new > file &&
> 	+       test_must_fail git add File
> 	+'
> 	+

In general, yes.
There are 2 comments:
This the "echo" line should have no ' ' after the '>':

	echo new >file &&

The other question is,
if we should move that test case into t0050-filesystem.sh,
but that is a matter of taste.

diff --git a/t/t0050-filesystem.sh b/t/t0050-filesystem.sh
index 192c94eccd..b8d6bad97a 100755
--- a/t/t0050-filesystem.sh
+++ b/t/t0050-filesystem.sh
@@ -106,6 +106,11 @@ test_expect_failure CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS 'add (with different case)' '
        test "z$(git cat-file blob :$camel)" = z1
	 '

+test_expect_success CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS 'add (with wrong case)' '
+       git reset --hard initial &&
+       test_must_fail git add CAMELCASE
+'
+