On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 08:41:06AM -0700, William Chargin wrote: > This patch broadens the set of commits matched by ":/" pathspecs to > include commits reachable from HEAD but not any named ref. This avoids > surprising behavior when working with a detached HEAD and trying to > refer to a commit that was recently created and only exists within the > detached state. > > Signed-off-by: William Chargin <wchar...@gmail.com> > Based-on-patch-by: Jeff King <p...@peff.net>
Thanks, this looks perfect! Just to be clear on licensing, I'll add my: Signed-off-by: Jeff King <p...@peff.net> > diff --git a/t/t4208-log-magic-pathspec.sh b/t/t4208-log-magic-pathspec.sh > index 62f335b2d..41b9f3eba 100755 > --- a/t/t4208-log-magic-pathspec.sh > +++ b/t/t4208-log-magic-pathspec.sh > @@ -25,6 +25,20 @@ test_expect_success '"git log :/a -- " should not be > ambiguous' ' > git log :/a -- > ' > > +test_expect_success '"git log :/detached -- " should find a commit only in > HEAD' ' > + test_when_finished "git checkout master" && > + git checkout --detach && > + test_tick && > + git commit --allow-empty -m detached && > + test_tick && > + git commit --allow-empty -m something-else && > + git log :/detached -- > +' At first I wondered if you could just use test_commit here (instead of a manual test_tick and commit). But we care about reachability only from the detached HEAD here, so this must _not_ use test_commit, which creates an extra tag. It could be worth mentioning that in a comment (since somebody who later refactors to make that change would not realize the problem, as it would simply cause a broken test to return a false success). But... > +test_expect_success '"git log :/detached -- " should not find an orphaned > commit' ' > + test_must_fail git log :/detached -- > +' This follow-up test _would_ notice such a breakage. Very nicely done. -Peff
