On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Thomas Rast <tr...@inf.ethz.ch> wrote: > Felipe Contreras <felipe.contre...@gmail.com> writes: > >> The *:* refspec doesn't work, and never has, clarify the code and >> documentation to reflect that. This in effect reverts commit 9e7673e >> (gitremote-helpers(1): clarify refspec behaviour). > [...] >> -test_expect_success 'pulling with straight refspec' ' >> - (cd local2 && >> - GIT_REMOTE_TESTGIT_REFSPEC="*:*" git pull) && >> - compare_refs local2 HEAD server HEAD >> -' >> - >> -test_expect_failure 'pushing with straight refspec' ' >> - test_when_finished "(cd local2 && git reset --hard origin)" && >> - (cd local2 && >> - echo content >>file && >> - git commit -a -m eleven && >> - GIT_REMOTE_TESTGIT_REFSPEC="*:*" git push) && >> - compare_refs local2 HEAD server HEAD >> -' > > So what's wrong with the tests? Do they fail to test what they claim > (how?), test something that wasn't reasonable to begin with, or > something entirely different?
Look at the code comment, and look at the now updated documentation that assumes that *:* was reasonable. Given the available information, it would be reasonable to assume that *:* did work, but it didn't work, and it's not really possible to fix it, even if we wanted to, it would be a hack. It's better to accept that fact and stop worrying too much about what would be the best way to do the wrong thing. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
