Mark Levedahl wrote: > Subtests 6,7, and 9 of t3032 fail on Cygwin, and I presume will fail on > msysgit for similar reasons. Looking at test 6, the expected result is a > line ending with \r\n in text.txt. This line is extracted with grep > (grep 'justice and holiness' text.txt > actual), with unavoidable result > that on Cygwin the line ending is \n. This happens because on Cygwin, > the text utils are compiled to open files in text mode meaning than \n > and \r\n are both recognized as EOL markers. Thus, even though text.txt > is an exact match for what is created on Linux, the test fails because > \r\n cannot be distinguished by the available tools. > > I'm not sure the right way forward. I did confirm that by substituting > "q_to_tab" for "q_to_cr" in t3032, the test pass on Cygwin and on Linux. > Perhaps t3032 should be so amended to avoid use of a non-portable line > ending construct? This passes for me, on both cygwin and MinGW. After adding a test_pause to test #6: $ ./t3032-merge-recursive-options.sh -v ... expecting success: q_to_cr <<-\EOF >expected && justice and holiness and is the nurse of his age and theQ EOF git read-tree --reset -u HEAD && git merge-recursive --ignore-space-change HEAD^ -- HEAD remote && grep "justice and holiness" text.txt >actual && test_cmp expected actual && test_pause Merging HEAD with remote Merging: 0ab7224 Clarify be82dcf Remove cruft found 1 common ancestor: c1e95d9 Initial revision Auto-merging text.txt $ xxd expected 0000000: 2020 2020 6a75 7374 6963 6520 616e 6420 justice and 0000010: 686f 6c69 6e65 7373 2061 6e64 2069 7320 holiness and is 0000020: 7468 6520 6e75 7273 6520 6f66 2068 6973 the nurse of his 0000030: 2061 6765 2061 6e64 2074 6865 0d0a age and the.. $ xxd actual 0000000: 2020 2020 6a75 7374 6963 6520 616e 6420 justice and 0000010: 686f 6c69 6e65 7373 2061 6e64 2069 7320 holiness and is 0000020: 7468 6520 6e75 7273 6520 6f66 2068 6973 the nurse of his 0000030: 2061 6765 2061 6e64 2074 6865 0d0a age and the.. $ grep "justice and holiness" text.txt | xxd 0000000: 2020 2020 6a75 7374 6963 6520 616e 6420 justice and 0000010: 686f 6c69 6e65 7373 2061 6e64 2069 7320 holiness and is 0000020: 7468 6520 6e75 7273 6520 6f66 2068 6973 the nurse of his 0000030: 2061 6765 2061 6e64 2074 6865 0d0a age and the.. $ exit ... # passed all 11 test(s) 1..11 $ ATB, Ramsay Jones -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html