From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] tests: introduce test_ln_s and test_ln_s_add
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 16:41:35 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALkWK0nN2V3Cwi3n+DV7Bcme7jE=B+COFioqPFfHQgxGTWEtiA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c7be5891891d1eeba540a5a24f07d58514345b2b.1370076477.git.j6t@kdbg.org>
Johannes Sixt wrote:
> +test_ln_s_add () {
> + if test_have_prereq SYMLINKS
> + then
> + ln -s "$1" "$2" &&
> + git update-index --add "$2"
> + else
> + printf '%s' "$1" >"$2" &&
> + ln_s_obj=$(git hash-object -w "$2") &&
> + git update-index --add --cacheinfo 120000 $ln_s_obj "$2"
> + fi
> +}
Nicely done. As far as git is concerned, a symlink is nothing but a
plain file containing the destination filename (minus the newline)
with mode 120000 in the index.
> +test_ln_s () {
> + if test_have_prereq SYMLINKS
> + then
> + ln -s "$1" "$2"
> + else
> + printf '%s' "$1" >"$2"
> + fi
> +}
What is this? We can't test_ln_s something and then 'git add' it, so
what purpose does this serve?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-01 11:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-01 9:34 [PATCH 00/11] Increase test coverage on Windows by removing SYMLINKS from many tests Johannes Sixt
2013-06-01 9:34 ` [PATCH 01/11] test-chmtime: Fix exit code on Windows Johannes Sixt
2013-06-01 9:34 ` [PATCH 02/11] t2100: modernize style and unroll a loop of test cases Johannes Sixt
2013-06-01 9:34 ` [PATCH 03/11] t3010: modernize style Johannes Sixt
2013-06-01 9:34 ` [PATCH 04/11] tests: introduce test_ln_s and test_ln_s_add Johannes Sixt
2013-06-01 11:11 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra [this message]
2013-06-01 15:06 ` Johannes Sixt
2013-06-01 17:10 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-01 9:34 ` [PATCH 05/11] tests: use test_ln_s_add to remove SYMLINKS prerequisite (trivial cases) Johannes Sixt
2013-06-04 21:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-05 19:32 ` Johannes Sixt
2013-06-04 21:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-05 20:07 ` Johannes Sixt
2013-06-01 9:34 ` [PATCH 06/11] t0000: use test_ln_s_add to remove SYMLINKS prerequisite Johannes Sixt
2013-06-01 9:34 ` [PATCH 07/11] t2100: " Johannes Sixt
2013-06-04 22:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-05 20:23 ` Johannes Sixt
2013-06-01 9:34 ` [PATCH 08/11] t3030: " Johannes Sixt
2013-06-01 9:34 ` [PATCH 09/11] t3100: " Johannes Sixt
2013-06-01 9:34 ` [PATCH 10/11] t3509, t4023, t4114: " Johannes Sixt
2013-06-02 23:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-01 9:34 ` [PATCH 11/11] t6035: " Johannes Sixt
2013-06-07 20:53 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] Increase test coverage on Windows by removing SYMLINKS from many tests Johannes Sixt
2013-06-07 20:53 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] test-chmtime: Fix exit code on Windows Johannes Sixt
2013-11-20 14:00 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-06-07 20:53 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] t3010: modernize style Johannes Sixt
2013-06-07 20:53 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] tests: introduce test_ln_s_add Johannes Sixt
2013-06-07 20:53 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] tests: use test_ln_s_add to remove SYMLINKS prerequisite (trivial cases) Johannes Sixt
2013-06-07 20:53 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] t0000: use test_ln_s_add to remove SYMLINKS prerequisite Johannes Sixt
2013-06-07 20:53 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] t3030: " Johannes Sixt
2013-06-07 20:53 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] t3100: " Johannes Sixt
2013-06-07 20:53 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] t3509, t4023, t4114: " Johannes Sixt
2013-06-07 20:53 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] t6035: " Johannes Sixt
2013-06-07 20:53 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] t4011: " Johannes Sixt
2013-06-07 22:04 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] Increase test coverage on Windows by removing SYMLINKS from many tests Junio C Hamano
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