Re: [PATCH] sparse-checkout: improve OS ls compatibility

[Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>]

Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> There are several different ways this could be solved; this approach
> felt cleanest to me, but there are at least two other reasonable
> alternatives:
> 
>   * Add -a to the invocations and .git to the expected output
> 
>   * Add LSFLAGS and set it to -I on BSDs, to turn off the special dot
>     behaviour
> 
> I'll submit a new patch if a different approach is preferred.

Relying on "ls" itself seems a bit fragile.
My first choice is to write more tests in Perl5 :)

But using a shell for loop seems doable, here, since there
doesn't seem to be wonky characters.  I've done this in the past
when I had to fix a system without "ls".

This goes on top of your patch:

diff --git a/t/t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh b/t/t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh
index 3a3eafa653..a431d05643 100755
--- a/t/t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh
+++ b/t/t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ test_description='sparse checkout builtin tests'
 
 ls_no_git()
 {
-	ls -1 "$1" | grep -v .git
+	( cd "$1" && for i in *; do echo "$i"; done )
 }
 
 test_expect_success 'setup' '