Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > There is no guarantee that strbuf_read_file must error out for > directories. On some operating systems (e.g., Debian GNU/kFreeBSD > wheezy), reading a directory gives its raw content: > > $ head -c5 < / | cat -A > ^AM-|^_^@^L$ > > As a result, 'git diff -O/' succeeds instead of erroring out on > these systems, causing t4056.5 "orderfile is a directory" to fail. > > On some weird OS it might even make sense to pass a directory to the > -O option and this is not a common user mistake that needs catching. > Remove the test. > > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > Hi, > > t4056 is failing on systems using glibc with the kernel of FreeBSD[1]: > > | expecting success: > | test_must_fail git diff -O/ --name-only HEAD^..HEAD > | > | a.h > | b.c > | c/Makefile > | d.txt > | test_must_fail: command succeeded: git diff -O/ --name-only HEAD^..HEAD > | not ok 5 - orderfile is a directory > > How about this patch? Sounds sensible. Thanks. > Thanks, > Jonathan > > [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=git&arch=kfreebsd-amd64&ver=1%3A2.0~next.20140107-1&stamp=1389379274 > > t/t4056-diff-order.sh | 4 ---- > 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/t/t4056-diff-order.sh b/t/t4056-diff-order.sh > index 1ddd226..9e2b29e 100755 > --- a/t/t4056-diff-order.sh > +++ b/t/t4056-diff-order.sh > @@ -68,10 +68,6 @@ test_expect_success POSIXPERM,SANITY 'unreadable orderfile' ' > test_must_fail git diff -Ounreadable_file --name-only HEAD^..HEAD > ' > > -test_expect_success 'orderfile is a directory' ' > - test_must_fail git diff -O/ --name-only HEAD^..HEAD > -' > - > for i in 1 2 > do > test_expect_success "orderfile using option ($i)" ' -- 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