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Junio C Hamano be941a2c34 Merge branch 'jk/rev-parse-double-dashes' into maint
"git rev-parse <revs> -- <paths>" did not implement the usual
disambiguation rules the commands in the "git log" family used in
the same way.

* jk/rev-parse-double-dashes:
  rev-parse: be more careful with munging arguments
  rev-parse: correctly diagnose revision errors before "--"
2014-01-13 11:22:38 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 6845e8a62d Merge branch 'jk/cat-file-regression-fix' into maint
"git cat-file --batch=", an admittedly useless command, did not
behave very well.

* jk/cat-file-regression-fix:
  cat-file: handle --batch format with missing type/size
  cat-file: pass expand_data to print_object_or_die
2014-01-13 11:22:21 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 4766036ecd Merge branch 'jk/two-way-merge-corner-case-fix' into maint
"git am --abort" sometimes complained about not being able to write
a tree with an 0{40} object in it.

* jk/two-way-merge-corner-case-fix:
  t1005: add test for "read-tree --reset -u A B"
  t1005: reindent
  unpack-trees: fix "read-tree -u --reset A B" with conflicted index
2013-12-17 11:32:17 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 66c24cd8a4 Merge branch 'sb/sha1-loose-object-info-check-existence' into maint
"git cat-file --batch-check=ok" did not check the existence of the
named object.

* sb/sha1-loose-object-info-check-existence:
  sha1_loose_object_info(): do not return success on missing object
2013-12-17 11:31:18 -08:00
Junio C Hamano c8b928d770 Merge branch 'nd/magic-pathspec' into maint
"git diff -- ':(icase)makefile'" was unnecessarily rejected at the
command line parser.

* nd/magic-pathspec:
  diff: restrict pathspec limitations to diff b/f case only
2013-12-17 11:21:34 -08:00
Jeff King 6554dfa97a cat-file: handle --batch format with missing type/size
Commit 98e2092 taught cat-file to stream blobs with --batch,
which requires that we look up the object type before
loading it into memory.  As a result, we now print the
object header from information in sha1_object_info, and the
actual contents from the read_sha1_file. We double-check
that the information we printed in the header matches the
content we are about to show.

Later, commit 93d2a60 allowed custom header lines for
--batch, and commit 5b08640 made type lookups optional. As a
result, specifying a header line without the type or size
means that we will not look up those items at all.

This causes our double-checking to erroneously die with an
error; we think the type or size has changed, when in fact
it was simply left at "0".

For the size, we can fix this by only doing the consistency
double-check when we have retrieved the size via
sha1_object_info. In the case that we have not retrieved the
value, that means we also did not print it, so there is
nothing for us to check that we are consistent with.

We could do the same for the type. However, besides our
consistency check, we also care about the type in deciding
whether to stream or not. So instead of handling the case
where we do not know the type, this patch instead makes sure
that we always trigger a type lookup when we are printing,
so that even a format without the type will stream as we
would in the normal case.

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-12 11:31:25 -08:00
Jeff King 1418567381 rev-parse: correctly diagnose revision errors before "--"
Rev-parse understands that a "--" may separate revisions and
filenames, and that anything after the "--" is taken as-is.
However, it does not understand that anything before the
token must be a revision (which is the usual rule
implemented by the setup_revisions parser).

Since rev-parse prefers revisions to files when parsing
before the "--", we end up with the correct result (if such
an argument is a revision, we parse it as one, and if it is
not, it is an error either way).  However, we misdiagnose
the errors:

  $ git rev-parse foobar -- >/dev/null
  fatal: ambiguous argument 'foobar': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
  Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
  'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'

  $ >foobar
  $ git rev-parse foobar -- >/dev/null
  fatal: bad flag '--' used after filename

In both cases, we should know that the real error is that
"foobar" is meant to be a revision, but could not be
resolved.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-09 11:01:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano be38bee862 Sync with 1.8.4.5 2013-12-02 15:34:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano ac1fbbda20 submodule: do not copy unknown update mode from .gitmodules
When submodule.$name.update is given as hint from the upstream in
the .gitmodules file, we used to blindly copy it to .git/config,
unless there already is a value defined for the submodule.

However, there is no reason to expect that the update mode hinted by
the upstream is available in the version of Git the user is using,
and a really custom "!cmd" prepared by an upstream person running on
Linux may not even be available to a user on Windows.  It is simply
irresponsible to copy the setting blindly and to attempt to use it
during a later "submodule update" without validating it first.

Just show the suggested value to the diagnostic output, and set the
value to 'none' in the configuration, if it is not one of the ones
that are known to be supported by this version of Git.

Helped-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-02 13:48:06 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy 887c6c18ba diff: restrict pathspec limitations to diff b/f case only
builtin_diff_b_f() needs a path, not pathspec. Other modes in diff
can deal with pathspec just fine. But because of the current
GUARD_PATHSPEC() location, other modes also reject :(glob) and
:(icase).

Move GUARD_PATHSPEC(), and the "path" assignment statement, which is
the reason of this GUARD_PATHSPEC(), inside builtin_diff_b_f().

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-20 15:04:51 -08:00
Junio C Hamano c6f1b920ac Merge branch 'nd/literal-pathspecs'
Fixes a regression on 'master' since v1.8.4.

* nd/literal-pathspecs:
  pathspec: stop --*-pathspecs impact on internal parse_pathspec() uses
2013-11-18 14:31:29 -08:00
Junio C Hamano ab930f0296 Merge branch 'jx/branch-vv-always-compare-with-upstream'
Hot-fix for a regression.

* jx/branch-vv-always-compare-with-upstream:
  branch: fix --verbose output column alignment
2013-11-18 12:24:49 -08:00
Torstein Hegge 6b364d48f2 branch: fix --verbose output column alignment
Commit f2e0873 (branch: report invalid tracking branch as gone) removed
an early return from fill_tracking_info() in the path taken when 'git
branch -v' lists a branch in sync with its upstream. This resulted in an
unconditionally added space in front of the subject line:

    $ git branch -v
    * master f5eb3da  commit pushed to upstream
      topic  f935eb6 unpublished topic

Instead, only add the trailing space if a decoration have been added.

To catch this kind of whitespace breakage in the tests, be a bit less
smart when filtering the output through sed.

Signed-off-by: Torstein Hegge <hegge@resisty.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-18 11:24:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano cdc0c0f520 Merge branch 'jn/test-prereq-perl-doc' into maint
The interaction between use of Perl in our test suite and NO_PERL
has been clarified a bit.

* jn/test-prereq-perl-doc:
  t/README: tests can use perl even with NO_PERL
2013-11-08 12:01:58 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 9196a2f8bd Merge branch 'jc/upload-pack-send-symref' into maint
One long-standing flaw in the pack transfer protocol used by "git
clone" was that there was no way to tell the other end which branch
"HEAD" points at, and the receiving end needed to guess.  A new
capability has been defined in the pack protocol to convey this
information so that cloning from a repository with more than one
branches pointing at the same commit where the HEAD is at now
reliably sets the initial branch in the resulting repository.

* jc/upload-pack-send-symref:
  t5570: Update for clone-progress-to-stderr branch
  t5570: Update for symref capability
  clone: test the new HEAD detection logic
  connect: annotate refs with their symref information in get_remote_head()
  connect.c: make parse_feature_value() static
  upload-pack: send non-HEAD symbolic refs
  upload-pack: send symbolic ref information as capability
  upload-pack.c: do not pass confusing cb_data to mark_our_ref()
  t5505: fix "set-head --auto with ambiguous HEAD" test
2013-11-08 11:38:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano e5becd042f Merge branch 'jk/http-auth-redirects' into maint
We did not handle cases where http transport gets redirected during
the authorization request (e.g. from http:// to https://).

* jk/http-auth-redirects:
  http.c: Spell the null pointer as NULL
  remote-curl: rewrite base url from info/refs redirects
  remote-curl: store url as a strbuf
  remote-curl: make refs_url a strbuf
  http: update base URLs when we see redirects
  http: provide effective url to callers
  http: hoist credential request out of handle_curl_result
  http: refactor options to http_get_*
  http_request: factor out curlinfo_strbuf
  http_get_file: style fixes
2013-11-08 11:37:26 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 07c55c00a5 Merge branch 'mm/checkout-auto-track-fix' into maint
"git checkout topic", when there is not yet a local "topic" branch
but there is a unique remote-tracking branch for a remote "topic"
branch, pretended as if "git checkout -t -b topic remote/$r/topic"
(for that unique remote $r) was run. This hack however was not
implemented for "git checkout topic --".

* mm/checkout-auto-track-fix:
  checkout: proper error message on 'git checkout foo bar --'
  checkout: allow dwim for branch creation for "git checkout $branch --"
2013-11-07 14:36:59 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 0ceb7537c1 Merge branch 'jk/split-broken-ident' into maint
The fall-back parsing of commit objects with broken author or
committer lines were less robust than ideal in picking up the
timestamps.

* jk/split-broken-ident:
  split_ident: parse timestamp from end of line
2013-11-07 14:34:51 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 0faff47d7b Merge branch 'jc/revision-range-unpeel' into maint
"git rev-list --objects ^v1.0^ v1.0" gave v1.0 tag itself in the
output, but "git rev-list --objects v1.0^..v1.0" did not.

* jc/revision-range-unpeel:
  revision: do not peel tags used in range notation
2013-11-07 14:34:14 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 152a9c17a8 Merge branch 'fc/trivial'
A random collection of style fixes and minor doc updates.

* fc/trivial:
  setup: trivial style fixes
  run-command: trivial style fixes
  diff: trivial style fix
  revision: trivial style fixes
  pretty: trivial style fix
  describe: trivial style fixes
  transport-helper: trivial style fix
  sha1-name: trivial style cleanup
  branch: trivial style fix
  revision: add missing include
  doc/pull: clarify the illustrations
  t: replace pulls with merges
  merge: simplify ff-only option
2013-11-06 14:34:43 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 4ef8d1dd03 sha1_loose_object_info(): do not return success on missing object
Since 052fe5ea (sha1_loose_object_info: make type lookup optional,
2013-07-12), sha1_loose_object_info() returns happily without
checking if the object in question exists, which is not what the the
caller sha1_object_info_extended() expects; the caller does not even
bother checking the existence of the object itself.

Noticed-by: Sven Brauch <svenbrauch@googlemail.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-06 11:03:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 944adac909 Merge branch 'bw/solaris-sed-tr-test-portability'
* bw/solaris-sed-tr-test-portability:
  t4015: simplify sed command that is not even seen by sed
  Avoid difference in tr semantics between System V and BSD
  Change sed i\ usage to something Solaris' sed can handle
2013-11-04 14:58:20 -08:00
Junio C Hamano d35a42a62e Merge branch 'jk/duplicate-objects-in-packs'
Test fixup to a topic recently graduated.

* jk/duplicate-objects-in-packs:
  Fix '\%o' for printf from coreutils
2013-11-04 14:58:10 -08:00
Junio C Hamano a3a9cff037 Merge branch 'jk/wrap-perl-used-in-tests'
* jk/wrap-perl-used-in-tests:
  t: use perl instead of "$PERL_PATH" where applicable
  t: provide a perl() function which uses $PERL_PATH
2013-11-04 14:58:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 46466ea1db Merge branch 'jn/test-prereq-perl-doc'
* jn/test-prereq-perl-doc:
  t/README: tests can use perl even with NO_PERL
2013-11-04 14:57:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 77b43cac9f t1005: add test for "read-tree --reset -u A B"
With a conflicted index, this used to give us an error.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-04 10:13:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 76da5b1d22 t1005: reindent
Just to update the style of this ancient test script to match
our house style.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-04 10:13:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 05e9d907dd t4015: simplify sed command that is not even seen by sed
Noticed by Andreas Schwab; \<LF> inside a double quotes pair is
eaten by the shell to become an empty string and is not doing
anything.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-04 10:11:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano fbaa22678b Merge branch 'js/tests-windows-port-fix'
* js/tests-windows-port-fix:
  tests: undo special treatment of CRLF for Windows
  Windows: a test_cmp that is agnostic to random LF <> CRLF conversions
  t5300-pack-object: do not compare binary data using test_cmp
2013-11-01 07:38:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano cbe59df99a Merge branch 'js/test-help-format-windows-port-fix'
* js/test-help-format-windows-port-fix:
  t3200: do not open a HTML manual page when DEFAULT_MAN_FORMAT is html
2013-11-01 07:38:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 1feb458fb9 Merge branch 'jk/reset-p-current-head-fix'
"git reset -p HEAD" has codepath to special case it from resetting
to contents of other commits, but recent change broke it.

* jk/reset-p-current-head-fix:
  reset: pass real rev name to add--interactive
  add-interactive: handle unborn branch in patch mode
2013-11-01 07:38:49 -07:00
Junio C Hamano c167b76a62 Merge branch 'jk/for-each-ref-skip-parsing'
* jk/for-each-ref-skip-parsing:
  for-each-ref: avoid loading objects to print %(objectname)
2013-11-01 07:38:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 9dd860c856 Merge branch 'jl/submodule-mv'
Moving a regular file in a repository with a .gitmodules file was
producing a warning 'Could not find section in .gitmodules where
path=<filename>'.

* jl/submodule-mv:
  mv: Fix spurious warning when moving a file in presence of submodules
2013-11-01 07:38:27 -07:00
Felipe Contreras 501a75a7b3 t: replace pulls with merges
This is what the code intended.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-31 11:12:26 -07:00
Kacper Kornet fbc812a600 Fix '\%o' for printf from coreutils
The printf utility provided by coreutils when interpreting '\%o' format
does not recognize %o as formatting directive. For example
printf '\%o 0 returns \%o and warning: ignoring excess arguments,
starting with ‘0’, which results in failed tests in
t5309-pack-delta-cycles.sh. In most shells the test ends with success as
the printf is a builtin utility.

Fix it by using '\\%o' which is interpreted consistently in all versions
of printf.

Signed-off-by: Kacper Kornet <draenog@pld-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-31 10:24:33 -07:00
Johannes Sixt 01e8d327a9 t3200: do not open a HTML manual page when DEFAULT_MAN_FORMAT is html
We have the build configuration option DEFAULT_MAN_FORMAT to choose a
format different from man pages to be used by 'git help' when no format
is requested explicitly. Since 65db0443 (Set the default help format to
html for msys builds, 2013-06-04) we use html on Windows by default.

There is one test in t3200-branch.sh that invokes a help page. The
intent of the redirections applied to the command invocation is to avoid
that the man page viewer interferes with the automated test. But when
the default format is not "man", this does not have the intended effect,
and the HTML manual page is opened during the test run. Request "man"
format explicitly to keep the test silent.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-30 12:19:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano f989180262 Merge branch 'tr/valgrind-test-fix'
* tr/valgrind-test-fix:
  Revert "test-lib: allow prefixing a custom string before "ok N" etc."
  Revert "test-lib: support running tests under valgrind in parallel"
2013-10-30 12:10:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 4cebbe6f55 Merge branch 'nd/magic-pathspec'
All callers to parse_pathspec() must choose between getting no
pathspec or one path that is limited to the current directory
when there is no paths given on the command line, but there were
two callers that violated this rule, triggering a BUG().

* nd/magic-pathspec:
  Fix calling parse_pathspec with no paths nor PATHSPEC_PREFER_* flags
2013-10-30 12:10:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 414b7033b1 Merge branch 'nd/gc-lock-against-each-other'
* nd/gc-lock-against-each-other:
  gc: remove gc.pid file at end of execution
2013-10-30 12:10:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano f101b888f2 Merge branch 'mm/checkout-auto-track-fix'
"git checkout topic", when there is not yet a local "topic" branch
but there is a unique remote-tracking branch for a remote "topic"
branch, pretended as if "git checkout -t -b topic remote/$r/topic"
(for that unique remote $r) was run. This hack however was not
implemented for "git checkout topic --".

* mm/checkout-auto-track-fix:
  checkout: proper error message on 'git checkout foo bar --'
  checkout: allow dwim for branch creation for "git checkout $branch --"
2013-10-30 12:10:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 504c1942a9 Merge branch 'sg/t3600-nul-sha1-fix'
* sg/t3600-nul-sha1-fix:
  t3600: fix broken "choking git rm" test
2013-10-30 12:10:09 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 9907d1359c Merge branch 'jc/upload-pack-send-symref'
One long-standing flaw in the pack transfer protocol used by "git
clone" was that there was no way to tell the other end which branch
"HEAD" points at, and the receiving end needed to guess.  A new
capability has been defined in the pack protocol to convey this
information so that cloning from a repository with more than one
branches pointing at the same commit where the HEAD is at now
reliably sets the initial branch in the resulting repository.

* jc/upload-pack-send-symref:
  t5570: Update for clone-progress-to-stderr branch
  t5570: Update for symref capability
  clone: test the new HEAD detection logic
  connect: annotate refs with their symref information in get_remote_head()
  connect.c: make parse_feature_value() static
  upload-pack: send non-HEAD symbolic refs
  upload-pack: send symbolic ref information as capability
  upload-pack.c: do not pass confusing cb_data to mark_our_ref()
  t5505: fix "set-head --auto with ambiguous HEAD" test
2013-10-30 12:10:06 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 177f0a4009 Merge branch 'jk/http-auth-redirects'
Handle the case where http transport gets redirected during the
authorization request better.

* jk/http-auth-redirects:
  http.c: Spell the null pointer as NULL
  remote-curl: rewrite base url from info/refs redirects
  remote-curl: store url as a strbuf
  remote-curl: make refs_url a strbuf
  http: update base URLs when we see redirects
  http: provide effective url to callers
  http: hoist credential request out of handle_curl_result
  http: refactor options to http_get_*
  http_request: factor out curlinfo_strbuf
  http_get_file: style fixes
2013-10-30 12:09:53 -07:00
Brian Gernhardt d619cfc749 t5570: Update for clone-progress-to-stderr branch
git clone now reports its progress to standard error, which throws off
t5570.  Using test_i18ngrep instead of test_cmp allows the test to be
more flexible by only looking for the expected error and ignoring any
other output from the program.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-30 10:39:42 -07:00
Ben Walton 53039ab154 Avoid difference in tr semantics between System V and BSD
Solaris' tr (both /usr/bin/ and /usr/xpg4/bin) uses the System V
semantics for tr whereby string1's length is truncated to the length
of string2 if string2 is shorter. The BSD semantics, as used by GNU tr
see string2 padded to the length of string1 using the final character
in string2. POSIX explicitly doesn't specify the correct behavior
here, making both equally valid.

This difference means that Solaris' native tr implementations produce
different results for tr ":\t\n" "\0" than GNU tr. This breaks a few
tests in t0008-ignores.sh.

Possible fixes for this are to make string2 be "\0\0\0" or "[\0*]".

Instead, use perl to perform these transliterations which means we
don't need to worry about the difference at all. Since we're replacing
tr with perl, we also use perl to replace the sed invocations used to
transform the files.

Replace four identical transforms with a function named
broken_c_unquote. Replace the other two identical transforms with a
fuction named broken_c_unquote_verbose.

Signed-off-by: Ben Walton <bdwalton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-30 10:38:23 -07:00
Jeff King b74cf64803 for-each-ref: avoid loading objects to print %(objectname)
If you ask for-each-ref to print each ref and its object,
like:

  git for-each-ref --format='%(objectname) %(refname)'

this should involve little more work than looking at the ref
files (and packed-refs) themselves. However, for-each-ref
will actually load each object from disk just to print its
sha1. For most repositories, this isn't a big deal, but it
can be noticeable if you have a large number of refs to
print. Here are best-of-five timings for the command above
on a repo with ~10K refs:

  [before]
  real    0m0.112s
  user    0m0.092s
  sys     0m0.016s

  [after]
  real    0m0.014s
  user    0m0.012s
  sys     0m0.000s

This patch checks for %(objectname) and %(objectname:short)
before we actually parse the object (and the rest of the
code is smart enough to avoid parsing if we have filled all
of our placeholders).

Note that we can't simply move the objectname parsing code
into the early loop. If the "deref" form %(*objectname) is
used, then we do need to parse the object in order to peel
the tag. So instead of moving the code, we factor it out
into a separate function that can be called for both cases.

While we're at it, we add some basic tests for the
dereferenced placeholders, which were not tested at all
before. This helps ensure we didn't regress that case.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-30 10:33:46 -07:00
Jeff King 94221d2203 t: use perl instead of "$PERL_PATH" where applicable
As of the last commit, we can use "perl" instead of
"$PERL_PATH" when running tests, as the former is now a
function which uses the latter. As the shorter "perl" is
easier on the eyes, let's switch to using it everywhere.

This is not quite a mechanical s/$PERL_PATH/perl/
replacement, though. There are some places where we invoke
perl from a script we generate on the fly, and those scripts
do not have access to our internal shell functions. The
result can be double-checked by running:

  ln -s /bin/false bin-wrappers/perl
  make test

which continues to pass even after this patch.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-29 12:45:15 -07:00
Jeff King a0e0ec9f7d t: provide a perl() function which uses $PERL_PATH
Once upon a time, we assumed that calling a bare "perl" in
the test scripts was OK, because we would find the perl from
the user's PATH, and we were only asking that perl to do
basic operations that work even on old versions of perl.

Later, we found that some systems really prefer to use
$PERL_PATH even for these basic cases, because the system
perl misbehaves in some way (e.g., by handling line endings
differently). We then switched "perl" invocations to
"$PERL_PATH" to respect the user's choice.

Having to use "$PERL_PATH" is ugly and cumbersome, though.
Instead, let's provide a perl() shell function that tests
can use, which will transparently do the right thing.

Unfortunately, test writers still have to use $PERL_PATH in
certain situations, so we still need to keep the advice in
the README.

Note that this may fix test failures in t5004, t5503, t6002,
t6003, t6300, t8001, and t8002, depending on your system's
perl setup. All of these can be detected by running:

  ln -s /bin/false bin-wrappers/perl
  make test

which fails before this patch, and passes after.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-29 12:44:39 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder f8fc0ee314 t/README: tests can use perl even with NO_PERL
The git build system supports a NO_PERL switch to avoid installing
perl bindings or other features (like "git add --patch") that rely on
perl on runtime, but even with NO_PERL it has not been possible for a
long time to run tests without perl.  Helpers such as

	nul_to_q () {
		"$PERL_PATH" -pe 'y/\000/Q/'
	}

use perl as a better tr or sed and are regularly used in tests without
worrying to add a PERL prerequisite.

Perl is portable enough that it seems fine to keep relying on it for
this kind of thing in tests (and more readable than the alternative of
trying to find POSIXy equivalents).  Update the test documentation to
clarify this.

Reported-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-28 12:32:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano cfd10568b0 Sync with v1.8.4.2 2013-10-28 10:51:53 -07:00