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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, "David Coppa" <dcoppa@openbsd•org>,
	"René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web•de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tests: don't give unportable ">" to "test" built-in, use -gt
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2017 18:33:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq4ltkrwkk.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170806233850.14711-1-avarab@gmail.com> ("Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason"'s message of "Sun, 6 Aug 2017 23:38:50 +0000")

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  <avarab@gmail•com> writes:

> Change an argument to test_line_count (which'll ultimately be turned
> into a "test" expression) to use "-gt" instead of ">" for an
> arithmetic test.
>
> This broken on e.g. OpenBSD as of v2.13.0 with my commit
> ac3f5a3468 ("ref-filter: add --no-contains option to
> tag/branch/for-each-ref", 2017-03-24).
>
> Upstream just worked around it by patching git and didn't tell us
> about it, I discovered this when reading various Git packaging
> implementations: https://github.com/openbsd/ports/commit/7e48bf88a20

Thanks for finding and relaying this.

> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail•com>
> ---
>
> David, it would be great to get a quick bug report to
> git@vger•kernel.org if you end up having to monkeypatch something
> we've done. We won't bite, promise :)

Yeah.  I was hoping that your new list for platform porters would
help communicate these issues easier for those who are a bit shy to
be on this general development list ;-)

> As shown in that linked Github commit OpenBSD has another recent
> workaround in turning on DIR_HAS_BSD_GROUP_SEMANTICS and skipping a
> related test, maybe René can make more sense of that?
>
> There's more patches in their ports which indicate possible bugs of
> ours: https://github.com/openbsd/ports/tree/master/devel/git/patches/
>
>  t/t7004-tag.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/t7004-tag.sh b/t/t7004-tag.sh
> index 0ef7b94394..0e2e57aa3d 100755
> --- a/t/t7004-tag.sh
> +++ b/t/t7004-tag.sh
> @@ -1887,7 +1887,7 @@ EOF"
>  	run_with_limited_stack git tag --contains HEAD >actual &&
>  	test_cmp expect actual &&
>  	run_with_limited_stack git tag --no-contains HEAD >actual &&
> -	test_line_count ">" 10 actual
> +	test_line_count "-gt" 10 actual
>  '
>  
>  test_expect_success '--format should list tags as per format given' '

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-07  1:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-06 23:38 [PATCH] tests: don't give unportable ">" to "test" built-in, use -gt Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-08-07  1:18 ` brian m. carlson
2017-08-07 10:17   ` René Scharfe
2017-08-07 10:59     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-08-07 11:04     ` [PATCH] t0001: skip test with restrictive permissions if getpwd(3) respects them René Scharfe
2021-06-01  0:38       ` [PATCH] t0001: fix broken not-quite getcwd(3) test in bed67874e2 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-01 16:15         ` René Scharfe
2021-06-01 21:20           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-06-07 11:29             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-07 11:24           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-07 15:26             ` René Scharfe
2021-06-07 15:38               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-30 16:18         ` [PATCH v2] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-30 17:16           ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-07  1:33 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-08-07 17:32 ` [PATCH] tests: don't give unportable ">" to "test" built-in, use -gt Junio C Hamano
2017-08-07 18:06 ` Andreas Schwab

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