Re: [PATCH] Add compat/fopen.c which returns NULL on attempt to open directory

["H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:29:50 +0100, "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
wrote:

> On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:32:47 -0600, Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
> wrote:
> 
> > Some systems do not fail as expected when fread et al. are called on
> > a directory stream. Replace fopen on such systems which will fail
> > when the supplied path is a directory.
> 
> I applied this patch instead of mine, and added the Makefile define
> Harder to trace, as it is not issuing error messages, but could this
> success^Wfailure be related?

No, it is not. Some shell weirdness. This fixes it. Don't know off-hand
if it is portable enough

diff -pur a/t/t5701-clone-local.sh b/t/t5701-clone-local.sh
--- a/t/t5701-clone-local.sh  2008-02-02 05:09:01 +0100
+++ b/t/t5701-clone-local.sh  2008-02-11 11:13:26 +0100
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ test_expect_success 'local clone from x'

 test_expect_success 'local clone from x.git that does not exist' '
        cd "$D" &&
-       if git clone -l -s x.git z
-       then
+       git clone -l -s x.git z
+       if $? ; then
                echo "Oops, should have failed"
                false
        else

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