BusyBox comes with a ton of applets ("applet" being the identical
concept to Git's "builtins"). And similar to Git's builtins, the applets
can be called via `busybox <command>`, or the BusyBox executable can be
copied/hard-linked to the command name.
The similarities do not end here. Just as with Git's builtins, it is
problematic that BusyBox' hard-linked applets cannot easily be put into
a .zip file: .zip archives have no concept of hard-links and therefore
would store identical copies (and also extract identical copies,
"inflating" the archive unnecessarily).
To counteract that issue, MinGit already ships without hard-linked
copies of the builtins, and the plan is to do the same with BusyBox'
applets: simply ship busybox.exe as single executable, without
hard-linked applets.
To accommodate that, Git is being taught by this commit a very special
trick, exploiting the fact that it is possible to call an executable
with a command-line whose argv[0] is different from the executable's
name: when `sh` is to be spawned, and no `sh` is found in the PATH, but
busybox.exe is, use that executable (with unchanged argv).
Likewise, if any executable to be spawned is not on the PATH, but
busybox.exe is found, parse the output of `busybox.exe --help` to find
out what applets are included, and if the command matches an included
applet name, use busybox.exe to execute it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
For some reason, this test case was indented with 4 spaces instead of 1
horizontal tab. The other test cases in the same test script are fine.
Signed-off-by: Jens Glathe <jens.glathe@oldschoolsolutions.biz>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Before, the `git frotz` command would fail but its return code was
hidden since it was in the upstream of a pipe. Break the pipeline into
two commands so that the return code is no longer lost. Also, mark
`git frotz` with test_must_fail since it's supposed to fail.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Empty arguments passed on the command line can be represented by
a '', however sq_quote_buf_pretty was incorrectly dropping these
arguments altogether. Fix this problem by ensuring that such
arguments are emitted as '' instead.
Signed-off-by: Garima Singh <garima.singh@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a testing suite that is dedicated to aliases.
For now, check only if nested aliases work and if looping
aliases are detected successfully.
The looping aliases check for mixed execution is there but
disabled, because it is blocking the test suite for a full
minute. As soon as there is a solution for loops using
external commands, it should be enabled.
Signed-off-by: Tim Schumacher <timschumi@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Johannes Schindelin
Jens Glathe
Denton Liu
Garima Singh
Tim Schumacher