[PATCH] Teach git-ls-files about '--' to denote end of options.

Useful if you have a file whose name starts with a dash.

Signed-off-by: Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 69 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t3002-ls-files-dashpath.sh b/t/t3002-ls-files-dashpath.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2005 Junio C Hamano
+#
+
+test_description='git-ls-files test (-- to terminate the path list).
+
+This test runs git-ls-files --others with the following on the
+filesystem.
+
+    path0       - a file
+    -foo	- a file with a funny name.
+    --		- another file with a funny name.
+'
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+test_expect_success \
+	setup \
+	'echo frotz >path0 &&
+	echo frotz >./-foo &&
+	echo frotz >./--'
+
+test_expect_success \
+    'git-ls-files without path restriction.' \
+    'git-ls-files --others >output &&
+     diff -u output - <<EOF
+--
+-foo
+output
+path0
+EOF
+'
+
+test_expect_success \
+    'git-ls-files with path restriction.' \
+    'git-ls-files --others path0 >output &&
+	diff -u output - <<EOF
+path0
+EOF
+'
+
+test_expect_success \
+    'git-ls-files with path restriction with --.' \
+    'git-ls-files --others -- path0 >output &&
+	diff -u output - <<EOF
+path0
+EOF
+'
+
+test_expect_success \
+    'git-ls-files with path restriction with -- --.' \
+    'git-ls-files --others -- -- >output &&
+	diff -u output - <<EOF
+--
+EOF
+'
+
+test_expect_success \
+    'git-ls-files with no path restriction.' \
+    'git-ls-files --others -- >output &&
+	diff -u output - <<EOF
+--
+-foo
+output
+path0
+EOF
+'
+
+test_done