Subject: Re: [PATCH] tests: don't give unportable ">" to "test" built-in, use -gt

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2017 18:33:15 -0700

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  <[email-masked]> 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 <[email-masked]>
> ---
>
> David, it would be great to get a quick bug report to
> [email-masked] 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' '