# HG changeset patch
# User Ryan McElroy <rmcelroy@fb.com>
# Date 1510091175 28800
# Node ID 8154119ed2360ee274df5ff7b17dde422e48802c
# Parent  aad6b9fdfc75056d03274c7e8901862ede2bce61
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

diff -r aad6b9fdfc75 -r 8154119ed236 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]