cat: test output path behvaior when target path does not exist
authorRyan McElroy <rmcelroy@fb.com>
Tue, 07 Nov 2017 13:46:15 -0800
changeset 35047 8154119ed236
parent 35046 aad6b9fdfc75
child 35048 407ec7f3ff02
cat: test output path behvaior when target path does not exist In the next patch, we will change the behavior of the cat command to create output file parent directories before attempting to write the output file. This patch documents the current unfortunate behavior. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D1331
tests/test-cat.t
--- a/tests/test-cat.t	Mon Oct 23 00:06:49 2017 +0530
+++ b/tests/test-cat.t	Tue Nov 07 13:46:15 2017 -0800
@@ -119,3 +119,14 @@
   $ PATTERN='t4' hg log -r '.' -T "{envvars % '{key} -> {value}\n'}" \
   >                 --config "experimental.exportableenviron=PATTERN"
   PATTERN -> t4
+
+Test behavior of output when directory structure does not already exist
+
+  $ mkdir foo
+  $ echo a > foo/a
+  $ hg add foo/a
+  $ hg commit -qm "add foo/a"
+  $ mkdir output
+  $ hg cat --output "output/%p" foo/a
+  abort: No such file or directory: output/foo/a
+  [255]