From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>
Cc: "Tuomas Ahola" <taahol@utu.fi>,
git@vger.kernel.org, ps@pks.im,
"SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] t1450: use mv -f when overwriting a read only file
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:47:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqv76pybg8.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261025090242.GA25750@tb-raspi4> ("Torsten Bögershausen"'s message of "Sun, 25 Oct 2026 10:02:42 +0100")
Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> writes:
> Thanks as well from my side - I will wait a little while before
> sending out v3
Besides typofixes, I wonder if we should tighten the explanation
while keeping only the more important bits, perhaps like
t1450: use 'mv -f' when overwriting a read-only file
Test case 38 in t/t1450-fsck.sh ("rev-list --verify-objects with
truncated loose blob") replaces a loose blob with a truncated
version using `mv obj.tmp "$obj"`.
Because Git creates loose objects as read-only files, this step
attempts to overwrite a read-only file. When running the test
interactively, older versions of macOS `mv(1)` (prior to 12.3)
will prompt the user for confirmation, causing the test to hang
or fail.
Use `mv -f` to force the overwrite and avoid the interactive
prompt.
which captures that this is the interactive support of "mv" kicking
in, why the files we replace are read-only, and the fact that
mv has been fixed since macOS 12.3 (taken from Tuomas's reply).
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-25 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-16 23:02 What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2026, #06) Junio C Hamano
2026-10-20 18:51 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2026-10-21 5:45 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-10-21 17:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-22 4:37 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2026-10-22 6:36 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-10-24 18:30 ` [PATCH v1 1/1] t1450: use mv -f when overwriting a read only file tboegi
2026-10-24 19:37 ` Tuomas Ahola
2026-10-24 19:43 ` SZEDER Gábor
2026-10-25 4:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-25 4:33 ` [PATCH v2 " tboegi
2026-10-25 7:06 ` Tuomas Ahola
2026-10-25 9:02 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2026-10-25 16:47 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-10-25 18:06 ` [PATCH v3 1/1] t1450: use 'mv -f' when overwriting a read-only file tboegi
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