With nd/magic-pathspec I get the following failure on Windows in
t2016-checkout-patch.sh:
expecting success:
set_state dir/foo work head &&
# the third n is to get out in case it mistakenly does not apply
(echo y; echo n; echo n) | (cd dir && git checkout -p foo) &&
verify_saved_state bar &&
verify_state dir/foo head head
==== xx.
==== 1d.
==== 10e.
msys does not support: :(prefix:4)dir/foo
not ok 13 - path limiting works: foo inside dir
The error message 'msys does not support...' originates from this function
in git-add--interactive.perl (which is invoked from checkout -p):
sub run_cmd_pipe {
if ($^O eq 'MSWin32' || $^O eq 'msys') {
my @invalid = grep {m/[":*]/} @_;
die "$^O does not support: @invalid\n" if @invalid;
my @args = map { m/ /o ? "\"$_\"": $_ } @_;
return qx{@args};
} else {
my $fh = undef;
open($fh, '-|', @_) or die;
return <$fh>;
}
}
It looks like on Windows we disallow arguments that contain double-quote,
colon, or asterisk, and otherwise wrap arguments in double-quotes if they
contain space. Then pass them through qx{}, which I can only guess what it
does.
This code was introduced in 21e9757e (Hack git-add--interactive to make it
work with ActiveState Perl, 2007-08-01). The commit message has the
general statement "It wont work for arguments with special characters
(like ", : or *)), which I do not know how to interpret: Does ActiveState
Perl not work with special charactoers, or Windows? Because the latter is
definitely not true.
Can we be more permissive in the 'my @invalid' check without breaking
ActiveState Perl?
BTW, there is a similar failure in t7105-reset-patch.sh, which invokes
'git reset -p', but I haven't investigate further.
-- Hannes
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