Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] git-C: Add test to check "git -C ''"

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 13:39:29 -0800

Karthik Nayak <[email-masked]> writes:

> Add a test to check whether "git -C ''" works without giving an
> error. This is achieved by adding a commit and checking the log
> using "git -C ''" and comparing the log message with the commit
> message.

Why choose something complex like commit and log, though?

Wouldn't something like this match the series of current tests
better?  Also I think a small change with a small test like these
should be in a single patch, not two separate ones.

Thanks.

 t/t0056-git-C.sh | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/t/t0056-git-C.sh b/t/t0056-git-C.sh
index 99c0377..551d806 100755
--- a/t/t0056-git-C.sh
+++ b/t/t0056-git-C.sh
@@ -14,6 +14,16 @@ test_expect_success '"git -C <path>" runs git from the directory <path>' '
 	test_cmp expected actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success '"git -C <path>" with an empty <path> is a no-op' '
+	(
+		mkdir -p dir1/subdir &&
+		cd dir1/subdir &&
+		git -C "" rev-parse --show-prefix >actual &&
+		echo subdir/ >expect
+		test_cmp expect actual
+	)
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'Multiple -C options: "-C dir1 -C dir2" is equivalent to "-C dir1/dir2"' '
 	test_create_repo dir1/dir2 &&
 	echo 1 >dir1/dir2/b.txt &&