Re: Commit cce8d6fdb introduces file t/t5100/nul, git tree is now incompatible with Cygwin (and probably Windows)

Hi,

On Mon, 26 May 2008, Mark Levedahl wrote:

quoted

git checkout -f origin/master

error: git-checkout-index: unable to create file t/t5100/nul (File exists)

quoted

git mv t/t5100/nul t/t5100/nul-file

fatal: not under version control, source=t/t5100/nul,
destination=t/t5100/nul-file

I should not do this, because you cost me already too much time with your 
outrageous proposal to rewrite history just for that stupid platform 
called Windows, whose users seem to complain more than actually 
contribute, but here it goes:

http://repo.or.cz/w/git/dscho.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/nul-fix

The corresponding patch:

-- snipsnap --
[PATCH] Fix t5100 for Windows

On Windows, "nul" is not allowed as a file name.  So bend over for that
platform even more than we do already.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <redacted>
---
 t/t5100-mailinfo.sh        |    4 ++--
 t/t5100/{nul => nul-plain} |  Bin 91 -> 91 bytes
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 rename t/t5100/{nul => nul-plain} (100%)

diff --git a/t/t5100-mailinfo.sh b/t/t5100-mailinfo.sh
index a8b78eb..577ecc2 100755
--- a/t/t5100-mailinfo.sh
+++ b/t/t5100-mailinfo.sh

@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ done
 
 test_expect_success 'respect NULs' '
 
-	git mailsplit -d3 -o. ../t5100/nul &&
-	cmp ../t5100/nul 001 &&
+	git mailsplit -d3 -o. ../t5100/nul-plain &&
+	cmp ../t5100/nul-plain 001 &&
 	(cat 001 | git mailinfo msg patch) &&
 	test 4 = $(wc -l < patch)
 

diff --git a/t/t5100/nul b/t/t5100/nul-plain
similarity index 100%
rename from t/t5100/nul
rename to t/t5100/nul-plain
-- 
1.5.6.rc0.175.gdd78