Re: Git.pm with recent File::Temp fail

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:09:33AM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
>
>> Still failing in 1.8.2.2
>> 
>> Short fix:
>> --8<---
>> diff --git a/perl/Git.pm b/perl/Git.pm
>> index dc48159..7a252ef 100644
>> --- a/perl/Git.pm
>> +++ b/perl/Git.pm
>> @@ -1265,7 +1265,7 @@ sub _temp_cache {
>>                         $tmpdir = $self->repo_path();
>>                 }
>> 
>> -               ($$temp_fd, $fname) = File::Temp->tempfile(
>> +               ($$temp_fd, $fname) = File::Temp::tempfile(
>>                         'Git_XXXXXX', UNLINK => 1, DIR => $tmpdir,
>>                         ) or throw Error::Simple("couldn't open new temp file");
>
> I think this fix is the right thing. Your patch probably didn't get
> applied because it did not follow the guidelines in SubmittingPatches.

It was more like "It managed to miss people's attention because the
subject didn't say [PATCH]", but yes you are right that the change
the patch text itself shows looks reasonable and that I cannot apply
a patch that is not signed off (and worse yet in multipart/mixed).

> ...
> So I think the right commit message is something like:
>
>   We call File::Temp's "tempfile" function as a class method, but it was
>   never designed to be called this way. Older versions seemed to
>   tolerate it, but as of File::Temp 0.23, it blows up like this:
>
>     $ git svn fetch
>     'tempfile' can't be called as a method at .../Git.pm line 1117.
>
>   Fix it by calling it as a regular function, just inside the File::Temp
>   namespace.
>
> -Peff

Thanks.