From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste•net>,
git@vger•kernel.org,
"Johannes Schindelin" <johannes.schindelin@gmx•de>,
"Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web•de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] connect: improve check for plink to reduce false positives
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:16:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq381ewiln.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150626131524.GA2626@peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:15:24 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 08:30:12PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
>
>> Improve the check by looking for "plink" or "tortoiseplink" (or those
>> names suffixed with ".exe") only in the final component of the path.
>> This has the downside that a program such as "plink-0.63" would no
>> longer be recognized, but the increased robustness is likely worth it.
>> Add tests to cover these cases to avoid regressions.
>
> FYI, this ended up biting me today. We have some integration tests that
> make sure we can clone over putty, and we wrap plink in a
> "plink-wrapper.sh" script that tweaks a few extra options. That used to
> match under the old scheme, but not the new. It would also match if we
> looked for "plink" anywhere in the basename (but not in leading
> directories).
So this was a minor regression? ;-)
> I was able to work around it pretty easily by changing our test setup,
> but I thought I would include it here as a data point. It's probably not
> that representative of real-world users.
I'd imagine that "/usr/local/github/wrapped/bin/plink" may be a more
appropriate name to install that wrapper as than "plink-wrapper.sh",
but then people would need to think how to help that wrapper find
the real plink, so...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-26 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-22 14:36 [BUG] having 'plink' anywhere in the GIT_SSH environment variables sets putty = true Patrick Sharp
2015-04-22 17:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-04-22 19:12 ` Patrick Sharp
2015-04-22 20:29 ` Jeff King
2015-04-22 21:19 ` brian m. carlson
2015-04-22 21:29 ` Jeff King
2015-04-22 21:44 ` brian m. carlson
2015-04-22 22:00 ` Jeff King
2015-04-22 22:24 ` brian m. carlson
2015-04-22 23:23 ` Jeff King
2015-04-23 0:06 ` [PATCH 1/2] connect: simplify SSH connection code path brian m. carlson
2015-04-23 0:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] connect: improve check for plink to reduce false positives brian m. carlson
2015-04-23 6:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-04-23 15:53 ` Jeff King
2015-04-23 23:14 ` brian m. carlson
2015-04-24 6:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-04-24 22:28 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] connect: simplify SSH connection code path brian m. carlson
2015-04-24 22:28 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] connect: improve check for plink to reduce false positives brian m. carlson
2015-04-24 22:46 ` Pete Harlan
2015-04-24 22:48 ` brian m. carlson
2015-04-25 16:03 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-04-26 18:52 ` brian m. carlson
2015-04-26 20:30 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Improve robustness of putty detection brian m. carlson
2015-04-26 20:30 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] connect: simplify SSH connection code path brian m. carlson
2015-04-26 20:30 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] t5601: fix quotation error leading to skipped tests brian m. carlson
2015-04-26 20:30 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] connect: improve check for plink to reduce false positives brian m. carlson
2015-04-27 7:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-04-28 3:53 ` Jeff King
2015-06-26 13:15 ` Jeff King
2015-06-26 16:16 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-06-26 16:27 ` Jeff King
2015-06-26 17:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-06-26 17:23 ` Jeff King
2015-06-26 20:43 ` brian m. carlson
2015-04-26 22:04 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Improve robustness of putty detection Junio C Hamano
2015-04-27 15:46 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-04-28 4:15 ` Jeff King
2015-04-29 1:38 ` brian m. carlson
2015-04-24 6:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] connect: improve check for plink to reduce false positives Johannes Schindelin
2015-04-23 5:08 ` [BUG] having 'plink' anywhere in the GIT_SSH environment variables sets putty = true Torsten Bögershausen
2015-04-23 13:15 ` Patrick Sharp
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