From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, richih@debian•org, tboegi@web•de,
pclouds@gmail•com, dak@gnu•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] t0060: Add test for manipulating symlinks via absolute paths
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:50:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq7g9cf2ty.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1391358940-17373-2-git-send-email-martinerikwerner@gmail.com> (Martin Erik Werner's message of "Sun, 2 Feb 2014 17:35:36 +0100")
Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail•com> writes:
> When symlinks in the working tree are manipulated using the absolute
> path, git dereferences them, and tries to manipulate the link target
> instead.
The above may a very good description of the root cause, but
can we have description of a symptom that is visible by end-users
that is caused by the bug being fixed with the series here, by
ending the above like so:
... link target instead. This causes "git foo bar" to
misbehave in this and that way.
Testing the low-level underlying machinery like this patch does is
not wrong per-se, but I suspect that this series was triggered by
somebody noticing breakage in a end-user command "git foo $path"
with $path being a full pathname to an in-tree symbolic link. It
wouldn't be like somebody who was bored and ran "test-path-utils"
for fun noticed the root cause without realizing how the fix would
affect the behaviour that would be visible to end-users, right?
Can we have that "git foo $path" to the testsuite as well? That is
the breakage we do not want to repeat in the future by regressing.
I am guessing "foo" is "add", but I wasn't closely following the
progression of the series.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-03 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-15 12:48 git-mv with absolute path derefereces symlinks Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-26 14:22 ` [PATCH 0/2] in-tree symlink handling with absolute paths Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-26 14:22 ` [PATCH 1/2] t0060: Add test for manipulating symlinks via " Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-26 14:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] setup: Don't dereference in-tree symlinks for " Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-26 17:19 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-01-27 0:07 ` Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-27 0:07 ` [PATCH v2 " Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-27 0:49 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-01-27 16:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-31 20:21 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 1:59 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] Handling of " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 1:59 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] t0060: Add test for manipulating symlinks via " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 1:59 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] t0060: Add test for prefix_path when path == work tree Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 1:59 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] setup: Add 'abspath_part_inside_repo' function Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 2:19 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-02 2:23 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-02 11:13 ` Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 11:21 ` David Kastrup
2014-02-02 11:37 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-02-02 12:09 ` Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 12:27 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-02-02 12:15 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-02 1:59 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] setup: Don't dereference in-tree symlinks for absolute paths Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 16:35 ` [PATCH v5 0/5] Handling of " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 16:35 ` [PATCH v5 1/5] t0060: Add test for manipulating symlinks via " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-03 18:50 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-02-03 19:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-03 20:12 ` Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 16:35 ` [PATCH v5 2/5] t0060: Add test for prefix_path when path == work tree Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 16:35 ` [PATCH v5 3/5] t0060: Add tests for prefix_path when path begins with " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 16:35 ` [PATCH v5 4/5] setup: Add 'abspath_part_inside_repo' function Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-03 21:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-03 23:16 ` Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-04 18:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-04 18:32 ` Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-02 16:35 ` [PATCH v5 5/5] setup: Don't dereference in-tree symlinks for absolute paths Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-03 4:15 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-03 13:17 ` Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-04 0:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-04 14:25 ` [PATCH v6 0/6] Handling of " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-04 14:25 ` [PATCH v6 1/6] t3004: Add test for ls-files on symlinks via " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-04 14:25 ` [PATCH v6 2/6] t0060: Add test for prefix_path " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-04 14:25 ` [PATCH v6 3/6] t0060: Add test for prefix_path when path == work tree Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-04 14:25 ` [PATCH v6 4/6] t0060: Add tests for prefix_path when path begins with " Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-04 20:00 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-02-04 20:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-04 14:25 ` [PATCH v6 5/6] setup: Add 'abspath_part_inside_repo' function Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-04 19:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-04 14:25 ` [PATCH v6 6/6] setup: Don't dereference in-tree symlinks for absolute paths Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-31 20:22 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] t0060: Add test for manipulating symlinks via " Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-31 20:22 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] t0060: Add test for prefix_path when path == work tree Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-31 20:22 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] setup: Add 'abspath_part_inside_repo' function Martin Erik Werner
2014-01-31 22:37 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-02-01 1:31 ` Martin Erik Werner
2014-02-01 2:31 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-01-31 20:23 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] setup: Don't dereference in-tree symlinks for absolute paths Martin Erik Werner
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