Some commands call usage() when they are asked to give the help
message with "git cmd -h", but this has the same problem as we
fixed with callers of usage_with_options() for the same purpose.
Introduce a helper function that captures the common pattern
if (argc == 2 && !strcmp(argv[1], "-h"))
usage(usage);
and replaces it with
show_usage_if_asked(argc, argv, usage);
to help correct these code paths.
Note that this helper function still exits with status 129, and
t0012 insists on it. After converting all the mistaken callers of
usage_with_options() to call this new helper, we may want to address
it---the end user is asking us to give the help text, and we are
doing exactly as asked, so there is no reason to exit with non-zero
status.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many commands call usage_with_options() when they are asked to give
the help message, but it sends the help text to the standard error
stream. When the user asked for it with "git cmd -h", the help
message is the primary output from the command, hence we should send
it to the standard output stream, instead.
Introduce a helper function that captures the common pattern
if (argc == 2 && !strcmp(argv[1], "-h"))
usage_with_options(usage, options);
and replaces it with
show_usage_with_options_if_asked(argc, argv, usage, options);
to help correct code paths.
Note that this helper function still exits with status 129, and
t0012 insists on it. After converting all the mistaken callers of
usage_with_options() to call this new helper, we may want to address
it---the end user is asking us to give the help text, and we are
doing exactly as asked, so there is no reason to exit with non-zero
status.
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For most commands, "git foo -h" will send the help output to stdout, as
this is what parse-options.c does. But some commands send it to stderr
instead. This is usually because they call usage_with_options(), and
should be switched to show_usage_help_and_exit_if_asked().
Currently t0012 is permissive and allows either behavior. We'd like it
to eventually enforce that help goes to stdout, and teaching it to do so
identifies the commands that need to be changed. But during the
transition period, we don't want to enforce that for most test runs.
So let's introduce a flag that will let most test runs use the
permissive behavior, and people interested in converting commands can
run:
GIT_TEST_HELP_MUST_BE_STDOUT=1 ./t0012-help.sh
to see the failures. Eventually (when all builtins have been converted)
we'll remove this flag entirely and always check the strict behavior.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We centrally explain that "--no-whatever" is the way to countermand
the "--whatever" option. Explain that a configured default and the
value specified by an environment variable can be overridden by the
corresponding command line option, too.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Acked-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Wire up the git-subtree(1) command, which is part of "contrib/". Note
that we have to move around the exact location where we include the
"contrib/" subdirectory so that it comes after building the docs so that
we have access to some of the common functionality.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We unconditionally wire up building command completion present in the
"contrib/" directory. This may or may not be what users want, and we
don't provide a way to disable it.
Introduce a new "contrib" build option. This option is introduced as an
array so that users can manually pick which exact features they want to
include from the "contrib" directory. By default, we build and install
shell completions, which is a commonly used feature and also the current
default.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a38edab7c8 (Makefile: generate doc versions via GIT-VERSION-GEN,
2024-12-06), we have refactored how we build our documentation by
injecting the Git version into the Asciidoc and AsciiDoctor config
files instead of doing so via arguments. As such, the original config
files were removed, where the expectation is that they get generated via
`GIT-VERSION-GEN` now.
Whie the git-subtree(1) command part of "contrib/" also builds docs
using these same config files, its Makefile wasn't adjusted accordingly
and thus building the docs is broken.
Fix this by using `GIT-VERSION-GEN` to generate those files.
Reported-by: Renato Botelho <garga@FreeBSD.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most of the warnings were about loop variables being declared as ints
with a condition using a size_t, whereby switching the variable to
size_t fixes the warning.
One other case was comparing the result of strlen to an int passed
as an argument, which turns out could just as well be passed as a
size_t, albeit trickling to other functions.
Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
meson-based build now supports the unsafe-sha1 build knob.
* ps/meson-weak-sha1-build:
meson: provide a summary of configured backends
meson: wire up unsafe SHA1 backend
meson: add missing dots for build options
meson: simplify conditions for HTTPS and SHA1 dependencies
meson: require SecurityFramework when it's used as SHA1 backend
meson: deduplicate access to SHA1/SHA256 backend options
meson: consistenlty spell 'CommonCrypto'
More -Wsign-compare fixes.
* ps/more-sign-compare:
sign-compare: avoid comparing ptrdiff with an int/unsigned
commit-reach: use `size_t` to track indices when computing merge bases
shallow: fix -Wsign-compare warnings
builtin/log: fix remaining -Wsign-compare warnings
builtin/log: use `size_t` to track indices
commit-reach: use `size_t` to track indices in `get_reachable_subset()`
commit-reach: use `size_t` to track indices in `remove_redundant()`
commit-reach: fix type of `min_commit_date`
commit-reach: fix index used to loop through unsigned integer
prio-queue: fix type of `insertion_ctr`
CI jobs gave sporadic failures, which turns out that that the
object finalization code was giving an error when it did not have
to.
* ps/object-collision-check:
object-file: retry linking file into place when occluding file vanishes
object-file: don't special-case missing source file in collision check
object-file: rename variables in `check_collision()`
object-file: fix race in object collision check
Tweak the help text used for the option value placeholders by
parse-options API so that translations can customize the "<>"
placeholder signal (e.g. "--option=<value>").
* as/long-option-help-i18n:
parse-options: localize mark-up of placeholder text in the short help
"git submodule" learned various ways to spell the same option,
e.g. "--branch=B" can be spelled "--branch B" or "-bB".
* re/submodule-parse-opt:
git-submodule.sh: rename some variables
git-submodule.sh: improve variables readability
git-submodule.sh: add some comments
git-submodule.sh: get rid of unused variable
git-submodule.sh: get rid of isnumber
git-submodule.sh: improve parsing of short options
git-submodule.sh: improve parsing of some long options
Also prevent git-commit manpage to refer to itself in the config
description by using a variable.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Use imperative mood
- make use of the placeholder format to simplify style
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix the synopsis to reflect the option description.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- switch the synopsis to a synopsis block which will automatically
format placeholders in italics and keywords in monospace
- use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- use `backticks for keywords and more complex option
descriptions`. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 297c09eabb (refs: allow multiple reflog entries for the same refname,
2024-12-16), the reftable backend learned to handle multiple reflog
entries within the same transaction. This was done modifying the
`update_index` for reflogs with multiple indices. During writing the
logs, the `max_update_index` of the writer was modified to ensure the
limits were raised to the modified `update_index`s.
However, since ref entries are written before the modification to the
`max_update_index`, if there are multiple blocks to be written, the
reftable backend writes the header with the old `max_update_index`. When
all logs are finally written, the footer will be written with the new
`min_update_index`. This causes a mismatch between the header and the
footer and causes the reftable file to be corrupted. The existing tests
only spawn a single block and since headers are lazily written with the
first block, the tests didn't capture this bug.
To fix the issue, the appropriate `max_update_index` limit must be set
even before the first block is written. Add a `max_index` field to the
transaction which holds the `max_index` within all its updates, then
propagate this value to the reftable backend, wherein this is used to
the set the `max_update_index` correctly.
Add a test which creates a few thousand reference updates with multiple
reflog entries, which should trigger the bug.
Reported-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We need an explicit `depends: documentation_deps` so that all of our
Documentation targets know they require asciidoc.conf. This shows up
as parallel build failures with it not yet being available.
Other targets look OK already.
Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To build the libgit-version library, Meson first generates
`version-def.h` in the build directory. Then it compiles `version.c`
into a library. During compilation, Meson tells to include both the
build directory and the project root directory.
However, when the user previously has compiled Git using Make, they will
have a `version-def.h` file in project root directory as well. Because
`version-def.h` is included in `version.c` using the #include directive
with double quotes, some preprocessors will look for the header file in
the same directory as the source file. This will cause compilation of
`version.c` ran by Meson to include `version-def.h` previously made by
Make, which might be out of date.
To explicitly tell the preprocessor which `version-def.h` to use, pass
the absolute path of this file as macro GIT_VERSION_H to the
preprocessor using option `-D` and have `version.c` `#include
GIT_VERSION_H`. To remain working with other build systems than Meson,
include "version-def.h" if that macro is not defined.
Co-authored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
From Documentation/revisions.txt:
'<describeOutput>', e.g. 'v1.7.4.2-679-g3bee7fb'::
Output from `git describe`; i.e. a closest tag, optionally
followed by a dash and a number of commits, followed by a dash, a
'g', and an abbreviated object name.
which means that output of the format
${REFNAME}-${INTEGER}-g${HASH}
should parse to fully expanded ${HASH}. This is fine. However, we
currently don't validate any of ${REFNAME}-${INTEGER}, we only parse
-g${HASH} and assume the rest is valid. That is problematic, since it
breaks things like
git cat-file -p branchname:path/to/file/named/i-gaffed
which, when commit (or tree or blob) affed exists, will not return us
information about the file we are looking for but will instead
erroneously tell us about object affed.
A few additional notes:
- This is a slight backward incompatibility break, because we used
to allow ${GARBAGE}-g${HASH} as a way to spell ${HASH}. However,
a backward incompatible break is necessary, because there is no
other way for someone to be more specific and disambiguate that they
want the blob master:path/to/who-gabbed instead of the object abbed.
- There is a possibility that check_refname_format() rules change in
the future. However, we can only realistically loosen the rules
for what that function accepts rather than tighten. If we were to
tighten the rules, some real world repositories may already have
refnames that suddenly become unacceptable and we break those
repositories. As such, any describe-like syntax of the form
${VALID_FOR_A_REFNAME}-${INTEGER}-g${HASH} that is valid with the
changes in this commit will remain valid in the future.
- The fact that check_refname_format() rules could loosen in the
future is probably also an important reason to make this change. If
the rules loosen, there might be additional cases within
${GARBAGE}-g${HASH} that become ambiguous in the future. While
abbreviated hashes can be disambiguated by abbreviating less, it may
well be that these alternative object names have no way of being
disambiguated (much like pathnames cannot be). Accepting all random
${GARBAGE} thus makes it difficult for us to allow future
extensions to object naming.
So, tighten up the parsing to make sure ${REFNAME} and ${INTEGER} are
present in the string, and would be considered a valid ref and
non-negative integer.
Also, add a few tests for git describe using object names of the form
${REVISION_NAME}${MODIFIERS}
since an early version of this patch failed on constructs like
git describe v2.48.0-rc2-161-g6c2274cdbc^0
Reported-by: Gabriel Amaral <gabriel-amaral@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Given a branch name of 'foo{bar', commands like
git cat-file -p foo{bar:README.md
should succeed (assuming that branch had a README.md file, of course).
However, the change in cce91a2cae (Change 'master@noon' syntax to
'master@{noon}'., 2006-05-19) presumed that curly braces would always
come after an '@' or '^' and be paired, causing e.g. 'foo{bar:README.md'
to entirely miss the ':' and assume there's no object being referenced.
In short, git would report:
fatal: Not a valid object name foo{bar:README.md
Change the parsing to only make the assumption of paired curly braces
immediately after either a '@' or '^' character appears.
Add tests for this, as well as for a few other test cases that initial
versions of this patch broke:
* 'foo@@{...}'
* 'foo^{/${SEARCH_TEXT_WITH_COLON}}:${PATH}'
Note that we'd prefer not duplicating the special logic for "@^" characters
here, because if get_oid_basic() or interpret_nth_prior_checkout() or
get_oid_basic() or similar gain extra methods of using curly braces,
then the logic in get_oid_with_context_1() would need to be updated as
well. But it's not clear how to refactor all of these to have a simple
common callpoint with the specialized logic.
Reported-by: Gabriel Amaral <gabriel-amaral@github.com>
Helped-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ps/meson-weak-sha1-build:
meson: provide a summary of configured backends
meson: wire up unsafe SHA1 backend
meson: add missing dots for build options
meson: simplify conditions for HTTPS and SHA1 dependencies
meson: require SecurityFramework when it's used as SHA1 backend
meson: deduplicate access to SHA1/SHA256 backend options
meson: consistenlty spell 'CommonCrypto'
A help.autocorrect value of 1 is currently interpreted as "wait 1
decisecond", which can be confusing to users who believe they are setting a
boolean value to turn the autocorrect feature on.
Interpret the value of help.autocorrect as either one of the accepted list
of special values ("never", "immediate", ...), a boolean or an integer. If
the value is 1, it is no longer interpreted as a decisecond value of 0.1s
but as a true boolean, the equivalent of "immediate". If the value is 2 or
more, continue treating it as a decisecond wait time.
False boolean string values ("off", "false", "no") are now equivalent to
"never", meaning that guessed values are still shown but nothing is
executed. True boolean string values are interpreted as "immediate".
Signed-off-by: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`git instaweb -d python` should bind the server to 0.0.0.0, while
`git instaweb -d python -l` should bind the server to 127.0.0.1.
The code had them backwards by mistake since 2eb14bb2d4
(git-instaweb: add Python builtin http.server support, 2019-01-28).
Signed-off-by: Alecs King <alecsk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Switch the synopsis to a 'synopsis' block which will
automatically format placeholders in italics and keywords in
monospace
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use backticks for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
While at it, also convert an option description to imperative mood.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Switch the synopsis to a synopsis block which will automatically
format placeholders in italics and keywords in monospace
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ps/meson-weak-sha1-build:
meson: provide a summary of configured backends
meson: wire up unsafe SHA1 backend
meson: add missing dots for build options
meson: simplify conditions for HTTPS and SHA1 dependencies
meson: require SecurityFramework when it's used as SHA1 backend
meson: deduplicate access to SHA1/SHA256 backend options
meson: consistenlty spell 'CommonCrypto'
Last-minute fix for a regression in "git blame --abbrev=<length>"
when insane <length> is specified; we used to correctly cap it to
the hash output length but broke it during the cycle.
* ps/build-sign-compare:
builtin/blame: fix out-of-bounds write with blank boundary commits
builtin/blame: fix out-of-bounds read with excessive `--abbrev`
Support for Azure Pipelines has been retired in 6081d3898f (ci: retire
the Azure Pipelines definition, 2020-04-11) in favor of GitHub Actions.
Our CI library still has some infrastructure left for Azure though that
is now unused. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Both GitHub Actions and GitLab CI use the "ubuntu:latest" tag as the
default image for most jobs. This tag is somewhat misleading though, as
it does not refer to the latest release of Ubuntu, but to the latest LTS
release thereof. But as we already have a couple of jobs exercising the
oldest LTS release of Ubuntu that Git still supports, it would make more
sense to test the oldest and youngest versions of Ubuntu.
Adapt these jobs to instead use the "ubuntu:rolling" tag, which refers
to the actual latest release, which currently is Ubuntu 24.10.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With c85bcb5de1 (gitlab-ci: switch from Ubuntu 16.04 to 20.04,
2024-10-31) we have adapted the last CI job to stop using Ubuntu 16.04
in favor of Ubuntu 20.04. Remove the special-casing we still have in our
CI scripts.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add another job to GitLab CI that tests against the i386 architecture.
This job is equivalent to the same job in GitHub Workflows.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "linux-old" job was historically testing against the oldest
supported LTS release of Ubuntu. But with c85bcb5de1 (gitlab-ci: switch
from Ubuntu 16.04 to 20.04, 2024-10-31) it has been converted to test
against Ubuntu 20.04, which already gets exercised in a couple of other
CI jobs. It's thus not adding any significant test coverage.
Drop the job.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We explicitly list the distro of Linux-based jobs, but it is equivalent
to the name of the image in almost all cases, except that colons are
replaced with dashes. Drop the redundant information and massage it in
our CI scripts, which is equivalent to how we do it in GitLab CI.
There are a couple of exceptions:
- The "linux32" job, whose distro name is different than the image
name. This is handled by adapting all sites to use the new name.
- The "alpine" and "fedora" jobs, neither of which specify a tag for
their image. This is handled by adding the "latest" tag.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have split the CI jobs in GitHub Workflows into two categories:
- Those running on a machine pool directly.
- Those running in a container on the machine pool.
The latter is more flexible because it allows us to freely pick whatever
container image we want to use for a specific job, while the former only
allows us to pick from a handful of different distros. The containerized
jobs do not have any significant downsides to the best of my knowledge:
- They aren't significantly slower to start up. A quick comparison by
Peff shows that the difference is mostly lost in the noise:
job | old | new
--------------------|------|------
linux-TEST-vars 11m30s 10m54s
linux-asan-ubsan 30m26s 31m14s
linux-gcc 9m47s 10m6s
linux-gcc-default 9m47s 9m41s
linux-leaks 25m50s 25m21s
linux-meson 10m36s 10m41s
linux-reftable 10m25s 10m23s
linux-reftable-leaks 27m18s 27m28s
linux-sha256 9m54s 10m31s
Some jobs are a bit faster, some are a bit slower, but there does
not seem to be any significant change.
- Containerized jobs run as root, which keeps a couple of tests from
running. This has been addressed in the preceding commit though,
where we now use setpriv(1) to run tests as a separate user.
- GitHub injects a Node binary into containerized jobs, which is
dynamically linked. This has led to some issues in the past [1], but
only for our 32 bit jobs. The issues have since been resolved.
Overall there seem to be no downsides, but the upside is that we have
more control over the exact image that these jobs use. Convert the Linux
jobs accordingly.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20240912094841.GD589828@coredump.intra.peff.net/
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The containerized jobs in GitHub Actions run as root, giving them
special permissions to for example delete files even when the user
shouldn't be able to due to file permissions. This limitation keeps us
from using containerized jobs for most of our Ubuntu-based jobs as it
causes a number of tests to fail.
Adapt the jobs to create a separate user that executes the test suite.
This follows similar infrastructure that we already have in GitLab CI.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
One test in t7422 asserts that `git submodule status --recursive`
properly handles SIGPIPE. This test is flaky though and may sometimes
not see a SIGPIPE at all:
expecting success of 7422.18 'git submodule status --recursive propagates SIGPIPE':
{ git submodule status --recursive 2>err; echo $?>status; } |
grep -q X/S &&
test_must_be_empty err &&
test_match_signal 13 "$(cat status)"
++ git submodule status --recursive
++ grep -q X/S
++ echo 0
++ test_must_be_empty err
++ test 1 -ne 1
++ test_path_is_file err
++ test 1 -ne 1
++ test -f err
++ test -s err
+++ cat status
++ test_match_signal 13 0
++ test 0 = 141
++ test 0 = 269
++ return 1
error: last command exited with $?=1
not ok 18 - git submodule status --recursive propagates SIGPIPE
The issue is caused by a race between git-submodule(1) and grep(1):
1. git-submodule(1) (or its child process) writes the first X/S line
we're trying to match.
2. grep(1) matches the line.
3a. grep(1) exits, closing the pipe.
3b. git-submodule(1) (or its child process) writes the rest of its
lines.
Steps 3a and 3b happen at the same time without any guarantees. If 3a
happens first, we get SIGPIPE. Otherwise, we don't and the test fails.
Fix the issue by generating a couple thousand nested submodules and
matching on the first nested submodule. This ensures that the recursive
git-submodule(1) process completely fills its stdout buffer, which makes
subsequent writes block until the downstream consumer of the pipe either
reads more or closes it.
To verify that this works as expected one can apply the following patch
to the preimage of this commit, which used to reliably trigger the race:
diff --git a/t/t7422-submodule-output.sh b/t/t7422-submodule-output.sh
index 3c5177cc30..df6001f8a0 100755
--- a/t/t7422-submodule-output.sh
+++ b/t/t7422-submodule-output.sh
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ test_expect_success !MINGW 'git submodule status --recursive propagates SIGPIPE'
cd repo &&
GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL=file git submodule add "$(pwd)"/../submodule &&
{ git submodule status --recursive 2>err; echo $?>status; } |
- grep -q recursive-submodule-path-1 &&
+ { sleep 1 && grep -q recursive-submodule-path-1 && sleep 1; } &&
test_must_be_empty err &&
test_match_signal 13 "$(cat status)"
)
With the pipe-stuffing workaround the test runs successfully.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Two of our tests in t0060 verify that the runtime prefix functionality
works as expected by creating a separate directory hierarchy, copying
the Git executable in there and then creating scripts relative to that
executable.
These tests fail quite regularly in GitLab CI with the following error:
expecting success of 0060.218 '%(prefix)/ works':
mkdir -p pretend/bin &&
cp "$GIT_EXEC_PATH"/git$X pretend/bin/ &&
git config yes.path "%(prefix)/yes" &&
GIT_EXEC_PATH= ./pretend/bin/git config --path yes.path >actual &&
echo "$(pwd)/pretend/yes" >expect &&
test_cmp expect actual
++ mkdir -p pretend/bin
++ cp /c/GitLab-Runner/builds/gitlab-org/git/git.exe pretend/bin/
cp: cannot create regular file 'pretend/bin/git.exe': Device or resource busy
error: last command exited with $?=1
not ok 218 - %(prefix)/ works
Seemingly, the "git.exe" binary we are trying to overwrite is still
being held open. It is somewhat puzzling why exactly that is: while the
preceding test _does_ write to and execute the same path, it should have
exited and shouldn't keep any backgrounded processes around. So it must
be held open by something else, either in MinGW or in Windows itself.
While the root cause is puzzling, the workaround is trivial enough:
instead of writing the file twice we simply pull the common setup into a
separate test case so that we won't observe EBUSY in the first place.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
