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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] A test for commit --amend allowing changing of a very empty commit message
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:35:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080221203506.GA20143@steel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vwsoyt5xt.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano, Thu, Feb 21, 2008 21:23:10 +0100:
> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > Well, it fails... In current master
> 
> Then please mark it with test_expect_failure.

That's because I expect it to be fixed (in the next mail)

> > +test_expect_success 'allow amend of an empty message' '
> > +
> > +	git reset --hard &&
> > +	sha=$(:|git commit-tree HEAD^{tree} -p HEAD) &&
> 
> You do not have to pipe; </dev/null would do ;-).

Sadly: no. There are very challenged systems. Like, for instance, ones
having no idea of what "/dev/null" is. Windows/Cygwin/ActiveState Perl
in a bloody stupid corporate combination.

I'm trying to minimize differences between my tree for my system at
work and the main tree. It is honestly the only purpose for this
construct.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-21 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-21 19:54 [PATCH] A test for commit --amend allowing changing of a very empty commit message Alex Riesen
2008-02-21 20:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-21 20:35   ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2008-02-21 20:38     ` [PATCH] Fix amending of a commit with an empty message Alex Riesen
2008-02-21 20:56       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-21 21:32         ` Alex Riesen
2008-02-21 22:01           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-21 20:57     ` [PATCH] A test for commit --amend allowing changing of a very empty commit message Johannes Schindelin

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