Re: [PATCH] t5582: remove spurious 'cd "$D"' line

["SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 04:32:39PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Mickey Endito <mickey.endito.2323@protonmail.com> writes:
> 
> > The variable D is never defined in test t5582, more severely the test
> > fails if D is defined by something outside the test suite, so remove
> > this spurious line.
> 
> Wow.  Well spotted.
> 
> When D is left unset, we end up executing
> 
> 	cd "" && ...
> 
> and it explains why nobody noticed the breakage for nearly a year
> since c0192df6 (refspec: add support for negative refspecs,
> 2020-09-30) was written.
> 
> 
> Unlike the apparent
> copy-and-paste source, this is a more modern script that limits the
> chdir inside subshells to avoid moving around in the main flow of
> the test, and the fix proposed here looks the most sensible.  

'grep " cd $" test-results/*.out' shows that there is a similar case
in 't5323-pack-redundant.sh' as well, in test 'master: pack-redundant
works with no packfile'.

> > Signed-off-by: Mickey Endito <mickey.endito.2323@protonmail.com>
> > ---
> > To reproduce a failure do
> > D=/some/path/which/does/not/exist t/t5582-fetch-negative-refspec.sh
> >
> > Note: The variable D seems to be a reminiscent similar to t/t5510-fetch.sh,
> > which defines "D=$(pwd)". If you want to adopt that way, then you have
> > to code a fix yourself. ;-)
> >
> >  t/t5582-fetch-negative-refspec.sh | 1 -
> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/t/t5582-fetch-negative-refspec.sh b/t/t5582-fetch-negative-refspec.sh
> > index e5d2e79ad3..7a80e47c2b 100755
> > --- a/t/t5582-fetch-negative-refspec.sh
> > +++ b/t/t5582-fetch-negative-refspec.sh
> > @@ -105,7 +105,6 @@ test_expect_success "fetch with negative pattern refspec does not expand prefix"
> >  '
> >
> >  test_expect_success "fetch with negative refspec avoids duplicate conflict" '
> > -	cd "$D" &&
> >  	(
> >  		cd one &&
> >  		git branch dups/a &&
> > --
> > 2.30.2