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From: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: msysgit@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Windows: a test_cmp that is agnostic to random LF <> CRLF conversions
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 21:33:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52756198.2070900@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e64878fec3f026802e8d3958a1e6213428cab778.1382814437.git.j6t@kdbg.org>

On 26.10.2013 21:17, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> In a number of tests, output that was produced by a shell script is
> compared to expected output using test_cmp. Unfortunately, the MSYS bash--
> when invoked via git, such as in hooks--converts LF to CRLF on output
> (as produced by echo and printf), which leads to many false positives.

As you correctly point out the LF vs. CRLF issues are caused by MSYS 
bash. Then why are the functions called mingw_* instead of msys_*? I'd 
prefer to make very clear that not MinGW but MSYS is the culprit 
concerning the LF vs. CRLF issues (and also the path mangling issues).

-- 
Sebastian Schuberth

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-02 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-26 19:17 [PATCH 0/3] Fix tests on Windows caused by random CRLF output Johannes Sixt
2013-10-26 19:17 ` [PATCH 1/3] t5300-pack-object: do not compare binary data using test_cmp Johannes Sixt
2013-10-26 19:17 ` [PATCH 2/3] Windows: a test_cmp that is agnostic to random LF <> CRLF conversions Johannes Sixt
2013-11-02 20:33   ` Sebastian Schuberth [this message]
2013-11-02 20:40     ` Johannes Sixt
2013-11-02 20:47       ` Sebastian Schuberth
2013-11-03  8:32         ` Johannes Sixt
2013-10-26 19:17 ` [PATCH 3/3] tests: undo special treatment of CRLF for Windows Johannes Sixt

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