From: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Kyle J. McKay" <mackyle@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test: fix t7001 cp to use POSIX options
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 23:52:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5349B5A3.30601@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1tx3u0ts.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
Am 11.04.2014 21:23, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 01:24:02AM -0700, Kyle J. McKay wrote:
>>
>>> Since 11502468 and 04c1ee57 (both first appearing in v1.8.5), the
>>> t7001-mv test has used "cp -a" to perform a copy in several of the
>>> tests.
>>>
>>> However, the "-a" option is not required for a POSIX cp utility and
>>> some platforms' cp utilities do not support it.
>>>
>>> The POSIX equivalent of -a is -R -P -p.
>>>
>>> Change "cp -a" to "cp -R -P -p" so that the t7001-mv test works
>>> on systems with a cp utility that only implements the POSIX
>>> required set of options and not the "-a" option.
>>
>> I wonder if the "-R" is the part that we actually care about here.
>> Including the others does not hurt in that case, but using only "-R"
>> would perhaps make it more obvious to a later reader of the code exactly
>> what we are trying to do.
>
> These calls to "cp" are about "We know that earlier 'update' created
> the GIT_DIR of the submodule in the top-level superproject, because
> we are running a modern Git. But we want to make sure the command
> we are testing, "git mv", would work correctly if the repository
> were made with an older Git that created the GIT_DIR embedded in the
> working tree of the submodule, so let's emulate that case." As we
> create files and directories in GIT_DIR with explicit permission
> bits, we may care about
>
> (1) making sure "git mv" can actually move the directory, with some
> paths having mode bits different from the umasked default; and
>
> (2) checking that the GIT_DIR after "git mv" has the permission
> bits right.
When writing these tests I didn't care about (2), but - in addition
to the first half of (1) - I had another thing in mind:
(3) "git mv" shouldn't try to update the 'core.worktree' setting
when the GIT_DIR is embedded in the submodule's work tree.
> and if we cared, "-R -p" would be required here, not just "-R".
>
> If core.prefersymlinkrefs is set, GIT_DIR would have a symbolic link
> HEAD pointing at the current branch, and "-P" may become relevant,
> but manually running "cp -R .git git && ls -l git/HEAD" in such an
> old repository tells me that symbolic link HEAD is not dereferenced
> without an explicit "-L", so I dunno.
>
> Because we do not check anything inside GIT_DIR of the moved
> submodule after "git mv" is done, the more correct use of "cp" is
> moot for the purpose of (2), but it could be possible that "git mv"
> fails to move a submodule with GIT_DIR created embedded in its
> working tree by an older version of Git, while successfully copying
> an emulated one, due to differences such as modes and symlinks.
>
> The current implementation just does rename(2) on the whole
> submodule working tree and let its contents move together, so I do
> not think it matters at the moment for the purpose of (1); use of
> flags other than "-R" are purely for future-proofing, I would think.
Thanks for your detailed analysis and sorry to all parties involved
for the hassle caused by my knee-jerk reaction to just use "cp -a"
when I wanted to have an exact copy of 'that' directory 'there'.
Given that all other tests just use "cp -R" too in that situation
I'm all for the second version of Kyle's patch, so an "Acked-by"
from me on that one.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-12 21:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-11 8:24 [PATCH] test: fix t7001 cp to use POSIX options Kyle J. McKay
2014-04-11 11:43 ` Jeff King
2014-04-11 13:44 ` Kyle J. McKay
2014-04-11 19:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-12 21:52 ` Jens Lehmann [this message]
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