From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t7610: use "file:///dev/null", not "/dev/null", fixes MinGW
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 11:08:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <221117.86o7t5j3jd.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y3Q3xQeaXGPemcWv@nand.local>
On Tue, Nov 15 2022, Taylor Blau wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 12:40:14AM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>> On MinGW the "/dev/null" is translated to "nul" on command-lines, even
>> though as in this case it'll never end up referring to an actual file.
>>
>> So on Windows the fix for the previous "example.com" timeout issue in
>> 8354cf752ec (t7610: fix flaky timeout issue, don't clone from
>> example.com, 2022-11-05) would yield:
>>
>> fatal: repo URL: 'nul' must be absolute or begin with ./|../
>>
>> Let's evade this yet again by prefixing this with "file://", which
>> makes this pass in the Windows CI.
>
> Thanks very much. I just picked this up on top of my 'ab/t7610-timeout'
> branch and pushed it out to ttaylorr/git to double-check your results
> against CI. (Not that I don't trust you, of course, but I'm feeling like
> I should be extra-cautious ;-)).
>
> Assuming that all looks good, then I'll push out a new version of 'next'
> and dependent branches to the usual spots so that we can get 'next' back
> to green.
>
> Thanks for working on this so quickly.
And thank for picking it up! Looks like "next" is passing CI now:
https://github.com/git/git/actions/runs/3475751137/jobs/5810308794
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-17 10:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-05 11:54 [PATCH] t7610: fix flaky timeout issue, don't clone from example.com Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-11-09 22:47 ` Taylor Blau
2022-11-09 23:55 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-11-10 2:17 ` Taylor Blau
2022-11-15 19:42 ` Taylor Blau
2022-11-15 23:40 ` [PATCH] t7610: use "file:///dev/null", not "/dev/null", fixes MinGW Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-11-16 1:07 ` Taylor Blau
2022-11-17 10:08 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2022-11-17 21:50 ` Taylor Blau
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