Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] cat-file: add --follow-symlinks to --batch

From: David Turner <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 13:03:39 -0400

On Sun, 2015-05-10 at 09:06 +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> > +	ln -s loop2 loop1 &&
> > +	git add . &&
> > +	git commit -am "test"
> > +'
> 
> These tests will fail on a file system that does not support symbolic 
> links, such as on Windows. Would you please separate the test cases 
> (that come after the setup) into two groups:
> 
> 1. Those that inspect the filesystem and expect a symbolic link. Protect 
> these tests with a SYMLINKS prerequisite.

I believe that none of these require that.

> Note that you do not require a symlink enabled file system to generate a 
> repository with symlinks, i.e., you don't have to protect the setup code 
> with SYMLINKS. For this, you can use 'test_ln_s_add' instead of the 
> above sequence of 'ln -s' followed by a single 'git add .'.

Will fix, thanks.

> > +
> > +echo $hello_sha1 blob $hello_size > found
> 
> This seems to be used only in the next test. Please move it inside 
> test_expect_success.

This is used in a number of tests, e.g this one:

> > +test_expect_success 'git cat-file --batch-check --follow-symlinks works for in-repo, same-dir links' '
> > +	echo HEAD:same-dir-link | git cat-file --batch-check --follow-symlinks > actual &&
> > +	test_cmp found actual
> > +'