Re: gnulib tests fail because test-canonicalize.sh is not executable

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> According to James Youngman on 7/29/2007 2:22 PM:
>> /bin/sh: line 8: ../../polzer/tests/test-canonicalize.sh: Permission denied
>>
>> I've noticed this happening for a couple of weeks now, and could
>> believe that this has always been the case for this file, as it was
>> only added to CVS on 2007-07-06.   I guess the fix is to chmod the RCS
>> file in the CVS repository (all the other .sh files in that directory
>> are executable).   Are you able to chmod the file, Jim?
>
> Bah, my fault again.  I'll be glad when we make the switch to git, since
> then anyone can fix these types of problems.  Thanks, Jim, for fixing it.
>
> Hmm, it does raise a question, though - it looks like the current git
> mirror did not pick up on that change; is that a bug in git-cvsimport?
> (There are other changes not being picked up from the CVS gnulib master,
> such as the rename of popcount->count-one-bytes - the git copy never
> removed the popcount files).  I also wonder if in the reverse direction,
> if a change in file permissions in git will be properly reflected via the
> git cvsserver?

It just so happens that I regenerated the whole gnulib.git repository
from cvs and pushed the result a few minutes ago.  Normally, I let an
incremental process do the job automatically, but somehow there came
to be a branch, and hence lots of ugly merge deltas.  Now they're gone.

That also removed the popcount files.

Of course, just after pushing, I noticed that there is now too much
hierarchy in the git tree: a "clone" gives you a top-level gnulib
directory, with everything we're used to under that.  It'll take a
couple hours to regenerate it properly.