t6423: introduce Windows-specific handling for symlinking to /dev/null

The device `/dev/null` does not exist on Windows, it's called `NUL`
there. Calling `ln -s /dev/null my-symlink` in a symlink-enabled MSYS2
Bash will therefore literally link to a file or directory called `null`
that is supposed to be in the current drive's top-level `dev` directory.
Which typically does not exist.

The test, however, really wants the created symbolic link to point to
the NUL device. Let's instead use the `mklink` utility on Windows to
perform that job, and keep using `ln -s /dev/null <target>` on
non-Windows platforms.

While at it, add the missing `SYMLINKS` prereq because this test _still_
would not pass on Windows before support for symbolic links is
upstreamed from Git for Windows.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit is contained in:
Johannes Schindelin
2025-12-17 14:18:45 +00:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent be6ac35107
commit eae7c16c3d

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@@ -5158,13 +5158,18 @@ test_setup_12m () {
git switch B &&
git rm dir/subdir/file &&
mkdir dir &&
ln -s /dev/null dir/subdir &&
if test_have_prereq MINGW
then
cmd //c 'mklink dir\subdir NUL'
else
ln -s /dev/null dir/subdir
fi &&
git add . &&
git commit -m "B"
)
}
test_expect_success '12m: Change parent of renamed-dir to symlink on other side' '
test_expect_success SYMLINKS '12m: Change parent of renamed-dir to symlink on other side' '
test_setup_12m &&
(
cd 12m &&