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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: kusmabite@gmail.com
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com, j.sixt@viscovery.net,
	schwab@linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkout: do not corrupt HEAD on empty repo
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 09:43:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vsjfawrmw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPQNSau5snkNLqsnBnsLVBVNKHXnvb8rsE8DbNfpo9__5uijA@mail.gmail.com> (Erik Faye-Lund's message of "Tue, 8 May 2012 18:25:29 +0200")

Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> writes:

> Hmh, this is needlessly cluttery. The following should cover it:
>
> ---
> diff --git a/t/t2015-checkout-unborn.sh b/t/t2015-checkout-unborn.sh
> index 2fa9458..b49fedf 100755
> --- a/t/t2015-checkout-unborn.sh
> +++ b/t/t2015-checkout-unborn.sh
> @@ -50,10 +50,7 @@ test_expect_success 'checking out in a newly created repo' '
>  	test_create_repo empty &&
>  	(
>  		cd empty &&
> -		cat .git/HEAD >expect &&
> -		test_must_fail git checkout &&
> -		cat .git/HEAD >actual &&
> -		test_cmp expect actual
> +		test_must_fail git checkout
>  	)
>  '

Hrm, I am of two minds.  Yes, we may want checkout to fail, but at the
same time, we would want to make sure that a failed checkout does not
corrupt the HEAD.  Perhaps it would make it more palatable if you replaced
"cat .git/HEAD" with "git symbolic-ref HEAD" in the original?

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-08 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-08 16:05 [PATCH] checkout: do not corrupt HEAD on empty repo Erik Faye-Lund
2012-05-08 16:25 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2012-05-08 16:43   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-05-08 16:52     ` Erik Faye-Lund
2012-05-08 17:13       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-08 16:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-08 16:35   ` Erik Faye-Lund
2012-05-08 16:41     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-08 16:43       ` Erik Faye-Lund
2012-05-08 17:33         ` Andreas Schwab

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