This documents current behavior of the config machinery, when changing
the value of some settings. This patch just serves to provide a baseline
for the follow up that will fix some issues with the current behavior.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com>
---
t/t1300-config.sh | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 86 insertions(+)
diff --git a/t/t1300-config.sh b/t/t1300-config.sh
index e43982a9c1f..c15c19bf78d 100755
--- a/t/t1300-config.sh
+++ b/t/t1300-config.sh
@@ -1188,6 +1188,92 @@ test_expect_success 'last one wins: three level vars' '
test_cmp expect actual
'
+test_expect_success 'old-fashioned settings are case insensitive' '
+ test_when_finished "rm -f testConfig testConfig_expect
testConfig_actual" &&
+
+ cat >testConfig_actual <<-EOF &&
+ [V.A]
+ r = value1
+ EOF
+ q_to_tab >testConfig_expect <<-EOF &&
+ [V.A]
+ Qr = value2
+ EOF
+ git config -f testConfig_actual "v.a.r" value2 &&
+ test_cmp testConfig_expect testConfig_actual &&
+
+ cat >testConfig_actual <<-EOF &&
+ [V.A]
+ r = value1
+ EOF
+ q_to_tab >testConfig_expect <<-EOF &&
+ [V.A]
+ QR = value2
+ EOF
+ git config -f testConfig_actual "V.a.R" value2 &&
+ test_cmp testConfig_expect testConfig_actual &&
+
+ cat >testConfig_actual <<-EOF &&
+ [V.A]
+ r = value1
+ EOF
+ q_to_tab >testConfig_expect <<-EOF &&
+ [V.A]
+ r = value1
+ Qr = value2
+ EOF
+ git config -f testConfig_actual "V.A.r" value2 &&
+ test_cmp testConfig_expect testConfig_actual &&
+
+ cat >testConfig_actual <<-EOF &&
+ [V.A]
+ r = value1
+ EOF
+ q_to_tab >testConfig_expect <<-EOF &&
+ [V.A]
+ r = value1
+ Qr = value2
+ EOF
+ git config -f testConfig_actual "v.A.r" value2 &&
+ test_cmp testConfig_expect testConfig_actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'setting different case sensitive subsections ' '
+ test_when_finished "rm -f testConfig testConfig_expect
testConfig_actual" &&
+
+ cat >testConfig_actual <<-EOF &&
+ [V "A"]
+ R = v1
+ [K "E"]
+ Y = v1
+ [a "b"]
+ c = v1
+ [d "e"]
+ f = v1
+ EOF
+ q_to_tab >testConfig_expect <<-EOF &&
+ [V "A"]
+ Qr = v2
+ [K "E"]
+ Qy = v2
+ [a "b"]
+ Qc = v2
+ [d "e"]
+ f = v1
+ Qf = v2
+ EOF
+ # exact match
+ git config -f testConfig_actual a.b.c v2 &&
+ # match section and subsection, key is cased differently.
+ git config -f testConfig_actual K.E.y v2 &&
+ # section and key are matched case insensitive, but subsection needs
+ # to match; When writing out new values only the key is adjusted
+ git config -f testConfig_actual v.A.r v2 &&
+ # subsection is not matched:
+ git config -f testConfig_actual d.E.f v2 &&
+ test_cmp testConfig_expect testConfig_actual
+'
+
for VAR in a .a a. a.0b a."b c". a."b c".0d
do
test_expect_success "git -c $VAR=VAL rejects invalid '$VAR'" '
--
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