Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add more tests for git-clean

From: Pierre Habouzit <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:46:17 +0100

On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 11:35:42PM +0000, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Shawn Bohrer <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > +test_expect_success 'git-clean with prefix' '
> > +
> > +	mkdir -p build docs &&
> > +	touch a.out src/part3.c docs/manual.txt obj.o build/lib.so &&
> > +	cd src/ &&
> > +	git-clean &&
> > +	cd - &&
> 
> This is wrong for two reasons.
> 
>  - Is "cd -" portable?

  this is POSIX:

8910 − When a hyphen is used as the operand, this shall be equivalent to the command:
8911   cd "$OLDPWD" && pwd
8912   which changes to the previous working directory and then writes its name.

  Meaning that cd $OLDPWD should work, and won't print $OLDPWD.

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