Re: [PATCH 1/2] t6026-merge-attr: child processes must not inherit index.lock handles

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> From: Ben Wijen <ben@wijen.net>
>
> On Windows, files cannot be removed unless all file handles to it have

s/files/a file/, as the file handles later in the sentence are open
on that single file.

Alternatively s/file handles to it/file handles to them/.

> been released. Hence it is particularly important to close handles when
> spawning children (which would probably not even know that they hold on
> to those handles).
>
> The example chosen for this test is a custom merge driver that indeed
> has no idea that it blocks the deletion of index.lock. The full use case
> is a daemon that lives on after the merge, with subsequent invocations
> handing off to the daemon, thereby avoiding hefty start-up costs. We
> simulate this behavior by simply sleeping one second.
>
> Note that the test only fails on Windows, due to the file locking issue.
> Since we have no way to say "expect failure with MINGW, success
> otherwise", we simply skip this test on Windows for now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Wijen <ben@wijen.net>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---

Otherwise, nicely done.  Thanks.

>  t/t6026-merge-attr.sh | 13 +++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/t/t6026-merge-attr.sh b/t/t6026-merge-attr.sh
> index ef0cbce..3d28c78 100755
> --- a/t/t6026-merge-attr.sh
> +++ b/t/t6026-merge-attr.sh
> @@ -181,4 +181,17 @@ test_expect_success 'up-to-date merge without common ancestor' '
>  	)
>  '
>  
> +test_expect_success !MINGW 'custom merge does not lock index' '
> +	git reset --hard anchor &&
> +	write_script sleep-one-second.sh <<-\EOF &&
> +		sleep 1 &
> +	EOF
> +
> +	test_write_lines >.gitattributes \
> +		"* merge=ours" "text merge=sleep-one-second" &&
> +	test_config merge.ours.driver true &&
> +	test_config merge.sleep-one-second.driver ./sleep-one-second.sh &&
> +	git merge master
> +'
> +
>  test_done