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authorLibravatar Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>2015-03-06 16:48:08 +0530
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-03-06 19:42:00 -0800
commit6a536e2076f02a98e0d6403ff68f3acf717fa1c4 (patch)
tree5f41839de6e8728f22c86e90f9bfe2e3ae99e328 /t
parentGit 2.3 (diff)
downloadtgif-6a536e2076f02a98e0d6403ff68f3acf717fa1c4.tar.xz
git: treat "git -C '<path>'" as a no-op when <path> is empty
'git -C ""' unhelpfully dies with error "Cannot change to ''", whereas the shell treats `cd ""' as a no-op. Taking the shell's behavior as a precedent, teach git to treat `-C ""' as a no-op, as well. Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 't')
-rwxr-xr-xt/t0056-git-C.sh10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/t/t0056-git-C.sh b/t/t0056-git-C.sh
index 99c037703a..2630e756da 100755
--- a/t/t0056-git-C.sh
+++ b/t/t0056-git-C.sh
@@ -14,6 +14,16 @@ test_expect_success '"git -C <path>" runs git from the directory <path>' '
test_cmp expected actual
'
+test_expect_success '"git -C <path>" with an empty <path> is a no-op' '
+ (
+ mkdir -p dir1/subdir &&
+ cd dir1/subdir &&
+ git -C "" rev-parse --show-prefix >actual &&
+ echo subdir/ >expect &&
+ test_cmp expect actual
+ )
+'
+
test_expect_success 'Multiple -C options: "-C dir1 -C dir2" is equivalent to "-C dir1/dir2"' '
test_create_repo dir1/dir2 &&
echo 1 >dir1/dir2/b.txt &&