Re: Bug: t5813 failing on Cygwin

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On za, 2015-11-07 at 19:20 +0000, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 01:45:27PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 12:11:29PM +0000, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> > 
> > > Specifically, I'm seeing t5813 subtests 9-13 and 15-19 failing.
> > > This happens
> > > with a clean build straight from the Git source tree (git clean 
> > > -dfx && make
> > > configure && ./configure && make && cd t && ./t5813-proto-disable
> > > -ssh.sh) as
> > > well as builds using the Cygwin packaging paraphernalia.
> > 
> > What does the output of "./t5813-proto-disable-ssh.sh -v -i" show?
> > 
> > It seems strange that it would fail only on Cygwin; this code
> > doesn't
> > really use any platform-dependent features. It's also weird that it
> > fails _only_ for ssh, and _only_ on the tests that are using
> > "ssh://"
> > URLs are not "host:path" syntax.
> 
> Ah!  I thought I'd checked that already, but looking at the output
> now I
> can see what's going wrong.  Cutting down to the relevant error:
> 
>     ssh: remote git-upload-pack '//home/Adam/vcs/Cygwin-Git/git-2.6.2
> -1.x86_64/build/t/trash directory.t5813-proto-disable
> -ssh/remote/repo.git' fatal: '//home/Adam/vcs/Cygwin-Git/git-2.6.2
> -1.x86_64/build/t/trash directory.t5813-proto-disable
> -ssh/remote/repo.git' does not appear to be a git repository
> 
> Note the '//' at the start of the path -- on most *nix systems '//'
> is
> effectively identical to '/'.  On Cygwin, however, '//' is used to
> access Windows UNC paths: what Windows calls "\\server\share", Cygwin
> calls "//server/share".  If you replace the '//' with '/' you get the
> locatoin of the repository; but here Cygwin is looking for the
> repository in a share called "Adam" on a network server called
> "home"...
> 
> I suspect the correct fix here is to fix whatever's causing Git to
> generate a path with that '//'.  If nobody else gets to it soon
> (probably on the order of a week before I'll get the chance), I'll go
> code diving and submit a patch.
> 
> > I tried building on Linux with the Cygwin build knobs found in
> > config.mak.uname, but I couldn't get it to fail. I also wondered if
> > the
> > test was doing something with the shell that might not be portable,
> > but
> > I don't see anything interesting.
> 
> If I recall correctly, the correct interpretation of '//' isn't
> defined
> in POSIX, so whatever's causing that path to be generated is the bit
> that's not fully portable.  It looks as though t5813 throwing this up
> is
> just a coincidence rather than it being particularly related to the
> function those tests are actually testing.

Looks like lib-proto-disable.sh's fake SSH doesn't strip double leading
/'es from the path. Try this patch:

diff --git a/t/t5813-proto-disable-ssh.sh b/t/t5813-proto-disable
-ssh.sh
index ad877d7..a954ead 100755
--- a/t/t5813-proto-disable-ssh.sh
+++ b/t/t5813-proto-disable-ssh.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ test_expect_success 'setup repository to clone' '
 '
 
 test_proto "host:path" ssh "remote:repo.git"
-test_proto "ssh://" ssh "ssh://remote/$PWD/remote/repo.git"
-test_proto "git+ssh://" ssh "git+ssh://remote/$PWD/remote/repo.git"
+test_proto "ssh://" ssh "ssh://remote$PWD/remote/repo.git"
+test_proto "git+ssh://" ssh "git+ssh://remote$PWD/remote/repo.git"
 
 test_done


-- 
Dennis Kaarsemaker
www.kaarsemaker.net


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