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From: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones•plus.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t4014: shell portability fix
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 01:09:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <574E27A4.6040804@ramsayjones.plus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqbn3l3kmc.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>



On 31/05/16 23:53, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> One-shot assignment to an environment variable, i.e.
> 
> 	VAR=VAL cmd
> 
> does not work as expected for "cmd" that is a shell function on
> certain shells.  test_commit _is_ a helper function and cannot be
> driven that way portably.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
> ---
>  t/t4014-format-patch.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/t/t4014-format-patch.sh b/t/t4014-format-patch.sh
> index 8049cad..c3aa543 100755
> --- a/t/t4014-format-patch.sh
> +++ b/t/t4014-format-patch.sh
> @@ -1072,7 +1072,7 @@ test_expect_success '--from omits redundant in-body header' '
>  '
>  
>  test_expect_success 'in-body headers trigger content encoding' '
> -	GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="éxötìc" test_commit exotic &&
> +	(export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="éxötìc"; test_commit exotic) &&

Isn't 'export VAR=VAL' non-portable? So, maybe:

	(GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="éxötìc"; export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME; test_commit exotic) &&

>  	test_when_finished "git reset --hard HEAD^" &&
>  	git format-patch -1 --stdout --from >patch &&
>  	cat >expect <<-\EOF &&

ATB,
Ramsay Jones

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-01  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-31 22:53 [PATCH] t4014: shell portability fix Junio C Hamano
2016-05-31 22:56 ` Jeff King
2016-06-01  0:09   ` Eric Sunshine
2016-06-01  2:31     ` Jeff King
2016-06-01  3:31       ` Jeff King
2016-06-01  3:44         ` Jeff King
2016-06-01  3:54           ` Jeff King
2016-06-01  5:33           ` Jeff King
2016-06-01  5:40             ` Jeff King
2016-06-01  6:49               ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-01  6:57                 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-01  7:04                 ` Jeff King
2016-06-01 15:07                   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-01 16:07                     ` Jeff King
2016-06-01 16:57                       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-01 16:58                         ` Jeff King
2016-06-01  5:48         ` Johannes Sixt
2016-06-01  5:48           ` Jeff King
2016-06-01  6:39       ` Eric Sunshine
2016-06-01  0:09 ` Ramsay Jones [this message]

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