diff test: reading a directory as a file need not error out

There is no guarantee that strbuf_read_file must error out for directories. On some operating systems (e.g., Debian GNU/kFreeBSD wheezy), reading a directory gives its raw content: $ head -c5 < / | cat -A ^AM-|^_^@^L$ As a result, 'git diff -O/' succeeds instead of erroring out on these systems, causing t4056.5 "orderfile is a directory" to fail. On some weird OS it might even make sense to pass a directory to the -O option and this is not a common user mistake that needs catching. Remove the test. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Jonathan Nieder committed Jan 10, 2014 at 12:10 UTC 0df49bef95fe1668805cdb76abadfb82a8956b6b
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@@ -68,10 +68,6 @@ test_expect_success POSIXPERM,SANITY 'unreadable orderfile' '
68 test_must_fail git diff -Ounreadable_file --name-only HEAD^..HEAD
69 '
70
71 -test_expect_success 'orderfile is a directory' '
72 - test_must_fail git diff -O/ --name-only HEAD^..HEAD
73 -'
74 -
71 for i in 1 2
72 do
73 test_expect_success "orderfile using option ($i)" '