Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] git-p4: Disable t9819 git-p4-case-folding test on OS X

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2015 11:26:23 -0700

[email-masked] writes:

> From: Lars Schneider <[email-masked]>
>
> The OS X file system is case insensitive by default. Consequently this
> test does not apply.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  t/t9819-git-p4-case-folding.sh | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/t/t9819-git-p4-case-folding.sh b/t/t9819-git-p4-case-folding.sh
> index 78f1d0f..c69ae47 100755
> --- a/t/t9819-git-p4-case-folding.sh
> +++ b/t/t9819-git-p4-case-folding.sh
> @@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ test_description='interaction with P4 case-folding'
>  
>  . ./lib-git-p4.sh
>  
> +if test_have_prereq DARWIN; then
> +	skip_all='skipping P4 case-folding tests; OS X file system is case insensitive by default'
> +	test_done
> +fi

Makes one wonder what should happen on Windows, or vfat mounted on
Linux for that matter.  IOW, shouldn't the prerequisite be more like
"do not run any of these tests if the filesystem does not allow us
to have two files in different cases at the same time"?

Perhaps

        if ! test_have_prereq CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS
        then
                skip_all=...
                test_done
        fi

instead, or something?