Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Add support for mailmap in cat-file

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:06:41 -0700

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:

> The cat-file tests does not have to use the "map" file to do its
> thing at all.  In fact, these tests prepare their own .mailmap file
> inside them.  But because it chose to run in the history prepared by
> previous tests, it broke, because without SYMLINKS, the sought-for
> commit does not get created.

So, an alternative solution is to keep the existing tests on
symlinks totally unrelated to these new tests.  These cat-file tests
can prepare the commit to munge at the beginning of the sequence,
and then do its thing.  This way, a platform without symlink support
does not have to create the "map" file that nobody uses, something
like the attached.

I do not have strong preference either way, though.

 t/t4203-mailmap.sh | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git c/t/t4203-mailmap.sh w/t/t4203-mailmap.sh
index c60a90615c..cd1cab3e54 100755
--- c/t/t4203-mailmap.sh
+++ w/t/t4203-mailmap.sh
@@ -963,6 +963,11 @@ test_expect_success SYMLINKS 'symlinks not respected in-tree' '
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'prepare for cat-file --mailmap' '
+	rm -f .mailmap &&
+	git commit --allow-empty -m foo --author="Orig <[email-masked]>"
+'
+
 test_expect_success '--no-use-mailmap disables mailmap in cat-file' '
 	test_when_finished "rm .mailmap" &&
 	cat >.mailmap <<-EOF &&