Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/12] t: prepare execution of potentially failing commands for `set -e`

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:40:19 -0700

Patrick Steinhardt <[email-masked]> writes:

> ...
> Anyway, looking at the failing test t9501, I assume that Perl isn't able
> to enable the DATE_PARSER prerequisite. So something like the below
> patch might hopefully fix it.

Ahhhh.  This is exactly the kind of test breakage we _were_ hoping
to find and fix with "set -e" series.  It has been happily failing
to set DATE_PARSER on macOS, but now with "set -e", it is unhappy.

Thanks.