RE: [Breakage] Git v2.21.0-rc0 - t5318 (NonStop)

["Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>]

On February 8, 2019 16:01, Jeff King wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 03:38:05PM -0500, Randall S. Becker wrote:
> 
> > > Exactly (if we even care about them being NULs; otherwise, we can
> > > omit the "tr" invocation).
> >
> > I'm a bit perplexed about this... Obviously added some debugging info,
> > but why we're getting No REQUEST_METHOD is perplexing. Is this a lack
> > of an apache2 instance?
> 
> No, this shouldn't be using apache at all. But...
> 
> > expecting success:
> >         NOT_FIT_IN_SSIZE=$(ssize_b100dots) &&
> >         env \
> >                 CONTENT_TYPE=application/x-git-upload-pack-request \
> >                 QUERY_STRING=/repo.git/git-upload-pack \
> >                 PATH_TRANSLATED="$PWD"/.git/git-upload-pack \
> >                 GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL=TRUE \
> >                 REQUEST_METHOD=POST \
> >                 CONTENT_LENGTH="$NOT_FIT_IN_SSIZE" \
> >                 yes | tr "y" "\\0" | git http-backend 2>err &&
> >         echo "Err is" &&
> >         cat err &&
> >         grep "fatal:.*CONTENT_LENGTH" err
> >
> > Status: 500 Internal Server Error
> > Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1980 00:00:00 GMT
> > Pragma: no-cache
> > Cache-Control: no-cache, max-age=0, must-revalidate
> >
> > Err is
> > fatal: No REQUEST_METHOD from server
> > not ok 15 - CONTENT_LENGTH overflow ssite_t
> 
> The problem is that you're setting the environment now for "yes". You'd
> need:
> 
>   yes | tr "y" "\\0" | env \
>     CONTENT_TYPE=... \
>     REQUEST_METHOD=POST \
>     ...etc...
>     git http-backend

Aw crap. I feel really silly now. Thanks. Will advise.