Re: [RFC PATCH 2/7] t6044: add a testcase for index matching head, when head doesn't match HEAD

[Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 1:39 PM, SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> wrote:
>> diff --git a/t/t6044-merge-unrelated-index-changes.sh b/t/t6044-merge-unrelated-index-changes.sh
>> index f9c2f8179..92ec55255 100755
>> --- a/t/t6044-merge-unrelated-index-changes.sh
>> +++ b/t/t6044-merge-unrelated-index-changes.sh
>> @@ -126,6 +126,17 @@ test_expect_failure 'recursive, when merge branch matches merge base' '
>>       test_path_is_missing .git/MERGE_HEAD
>>  '
>>
>> +test_expect_failure 'merge-recursive, when index==head but head!=HEAD' '
>> +     git reset --hard &&
>> +     git checkout C^0 &&
>> +
>> +     # Make index match B
>> +     git diff C B | git apply --cached &&
>
> Branch 'C' contains the file 'c', which creates ambiguity on
> case-insensitive file systems and makes the test fail:
>
>   ++git reset --hard
>   HEAD is now at ed5d5a6 B
>   ++git checkout 'C^0'
>   Previous HEAD position was ed5d5a6 B
>   HEAD is now at 4fa59ce C
>   ++git diff C B
>   ++git apply --cached
>   fatal: ambiguous argument 'C': both revision and filename
>   Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
>   'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
>   error: unrecognized input
>   error: last command exited with $?=128
>   not ok 8 - merge-recursive, when index==head but head!=HEAD
>

Good catch; thanks for pointing it out.  Here's a fix:

-- 8< --

Subject: [PATCH] fixup! t6044: add a testcase for index matching head, when
 head doesn't match HEAD

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
---
 t/t6044-merge-unrelated-index-changes.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/t/t6044-merge-unrelated-index-changes.sh b/t/t6044-merge-unrelated-index-changes.sh
index 6e0ecab9c..5e3779ebc 100755
--- a/t/t6044-merge-unrelated-index-changes.sh
+++ b/t/t6044-merge-unrelated-index-changes.sh
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ test_expect_success 'merge-recursive, when index==head but head!=HEAD' '
 	git checkout C^0 &&
 
 	# Make index match B
-	git diff C B | git apply --cached &&
+	git diff C B -- | git apply --cached &&
 	# Merge B & F, with B as "head"
 	git merge-recursive A -- B F > out &&
 	test_i18ngrep "Already up to date" out
-- 
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