Subject: Re: Expected test suite behavior

From: "brian m. carlson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2026 22:18:19 +0000

On 2026-05-25 at 22:01:23, Amogh Dambal wrote:
> `GIT_TEST_OPTS=--verbose` was very illuminating. I captured STDOUT/STDERR:
> `make test GIT_TEST_OPTS=--verbose &> git-test-verbose-fail.tmp`, which
> shows that almost every test fails `check_config` because a `git init` is
> creating a `.git/config` file whose executable bit is set:

What are the OS and file system on the host?  We tend to see
executable bits set when NTFS, FAT, or other Windows-adjacent file
systems are used on Linux and you're mounting `$(PWD)` into the
container as a volume.

> --
> Initialized empty Git repository in /root/git/t/trash
> directory.t0001-init/plain/.git/
> plain/.git/config is executable?
> not ok 1 - plain
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
> However, I'm not able to reproduce this, e.g. directly using the local built
> binary seems to work fine:
> 
> mkdir -p /tmp/debug && cd /tmp/debug
> /root/git/git init plain
> ls -alhrt /tmp/debug/plain/.git
> root@ec94ab1b260e:/tmp/debug# ls -alhrt /tmp/debug/plain/.git
> total 24K
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   92 May 25 21:26 config
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K May 25 21:26 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K May 25 21:26 refs
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K May 25 21:26 objects
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   23 May 25 21:26 HEAD
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K May 25 21:26 .

Git doesn't use `/tmp` for most files in the tests.  Those are stored
under `t/`, so you'd want to create your test directory there.
-- 
brian m. carlson (they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA