test: add known broken test for relative database path in new

This test highlights a bug introduced in 0.32. The new split between
path and mail_root does not properly canonicalize relative paths in
the latter.

diff --git a/test/T050-new.sh b/test/T050-new.sh
index 2985e24c66beb9ce13816ebdacf85c5a9638e139..5c07b2096107266d3be04790fd465a7aac3d20b8 100755 (executable)
--- a/test/T050-new.sh
+++ b/test/T050-new.sh
@@ -394,6 +394,19 @@ exit status: 75
 EOF
 test_expect_equal_file EXPECTED OUTPUT
 
+test_begin_subtest "Relative database path expanded in new"
+test_subtest_known_broken
+ln -s "$PWD/mail" home/Maildir
+notmuch config set database.path Maildir
+generate_message
+NOTMUCH_NEW > OUTPUT
+cat <<EOF >EXPECTED
+Added 1 new message to the database.
+EOF
+notmuch config set database.path ${MAIL_DIR}
+rm home/Maildir
+test_expect_equal_file EXPECTED OUTPUT
+
 add_email_corpus broken
 test_begin_subtest "reference loop does not crash"
 test_expect_code 0 "notmuch show --format=json id:mid-loop-12@example.org id:mid-loop-21@example.org > OUTPUT"