Hi Junio, On Sun, 24 Jan 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > From: Thomas Braun <thomas.braun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > A string of the form "@/abcd" is considered a file path > > by the msys layer and therefore translated to a Windows path. > > > > Here the trick is to double the slashes. > > > > The MSYS2 patch translation can be studied by calling > > > > test-path-utils print_path <path> > > > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Braun <thomas.braun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > > --- > > This feels wrong. > > The point of this test is that you can ask to checkout a branch > whose name is a strangely looking "@/at-test", and a ref whose name > is "refs/heads/@/at-test" indeed is created. > > The current "checkout" may be lazy and not signal an error for a > branch name with two consecutive slashes, but I wouldn't be > surprised if we tighten that later, and more importantly, I do not > think we ever promised users if you asked a branch "a//b" to be > created, we would create "refs/heads/a/b". > > The new test hardcodes and promises such an incompatible behaviour, > i.e. a request to create "@//b" results in "@/b" created, only to > users on MINGW, fracturing the expectations of the Git userbase. > > Wouldn't it be better to declare "On other people's Git, @/foo is > just as normal a branch name as a/foo, but on MINGW @/foo cannot be > used" by skipping some tests using prerequisites instead? As Eric points out, this is not so much a behavior on Git as of the MSYS2 Bash. In fact, if you call `git.exe checkout -b @/at-test` from a cmd window, it works just as advertised. But your comment made me inspect the entire t9100 again, wondering why things work when we copy the contents instead of symlinking them. And you know what, even if I could have sworn that I verified for every patch in this series that it is actually necessary to pass the test suite, it is *not* necessary. So I backed it out and it won't be part of v2 anymore. Ciao, Dscho -- 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