Re: [PATCH 1/4] t6038: make tests fail for the right reason

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On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 2:33 AM Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
<gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> t6038 had a pair of tests that were expected to fail, but weren't
> failing for the expected reason.  Both were meant to do a merge that
> could be done cleanly after renormalization, but were supposed to fail
> for lack of renormalization.  Unfortunately, both tests has staged

s/has/had/
...or...
s/has/have/

> changes, and checkout -m would abort due to the presence of those staged
> changes before even attempting a merge.
>
> Fix this first issue by utilizing git-restore instead of git-checkout,
> so that the index is left alone and just the working directory gets the
> changes we want.
>
> However, there is a second issue with these tests.  Technically, they
> just wanted to verify that after renormalization, no conflicts would be
> present.  This could have been checked for by grepping for a lack of
> conflict markers, but the test instead tried to compare the working
> directory files to an expected result.  Unfortunately, the setting of
> "text=auto" without setting core.eol to any value meant that the content
> of the file (in particular, the line endings) would be
> platform-dependent and the tests could only pass on some platforms.
> Replace the existing comparison with a call to 'git diff --no-index
> --ignore-cr-at-eol' to verify that the contents, other than possible
> carriage returns in the file, match the expected results and in
> particular that the file has no conflicts from the checkout -m
> operation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx>



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