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author | Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | 2014-01-10 12:10:31 -0800 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-01-10 15:30:45 -0800 |
commit | 0df49bef95fe1668805cdb76abadfb82a8956b6b (patch) | |
tree | e86161819d57cf7abdd8ba2af3aeb22fc118f0d1 /Documentation/technical/shallow.txt | |
parent | diff: add diff.orderfile configuration variable (diff) | |
download | tgif-0df49bef95fe1668805cdb76abadfb82a8956b6b.tar.xz |
diff test: reading a directory as a file need not error out
There is no guarantee that strbuf_read_file must error out for
directories. On some operating systems (e.g., Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
wheezy), reading a directory gives its raw content:
$ head -c5 < / | cat -A
^AM-|^_^@^L$
As a result, 'git diff -O/' succeeds instead of erroring out on
these systems, causing t4056.5 "orderfile is a directory" to fail.
On some weird OS it might even make sense to pass a directory to the
-O option and this is not a common user mistake that needs catching.
Remove the test.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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