Re: [PATCH] t7507-*.sh: Fix test #8 (could not run '"$FAKE_EDITOR"')

[Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>]

Am 20.11.2013 20:35, schrieb Ramsay Jones:
> On 20/11/13 17:22, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Hi Jens,
>>>
>>> commit 61b6a633 ("commit -v: strip diffs and submodule shortlogs
>>> from the commit message", 19-11-2013) in 'pu' fails the new test
>>> it added to t7507.
>>>
>>> I didn't spend too long looking at the problem, so take this patch
>>> as nothing more than a quick suggestion for a possible solution! :-P
>>> [The err file contained something like: "There was a problem with the
>>> editor '"$FAKE_EDITOR"'"].
>>>
>>> Having said that, this fixes it for me ...
>>
>> Well spotted.  test_must_fail being a shell function, not a command,
>> we shouldn't have used the "VAR=val cmd" one-shot environment
>> assignment for portability.
>>
>> Even though this happens to be the last test in the script, using
>> test_set_editor to permanently affect the choice of editor for tests
>> that follow is not generally a good idea.  It would be safer to do
>> this, I would have to say:
>>
>> 		git commit -a -m "submodule commit"
>> 	) &&
>>         (
>> 		GIT_EDITOR=cat &&
>>                 export GIT_EDITOR &&
>>                 test_must_fail git commit -a -v 2>err
>> 	) &&
>>         test_i18ngrep "Aborting ..."
> 
> Yes, this works great (and I very nearly wrote exactly this, but since
> the test was using test_set_editor anyway ...) :-D

Thanks all, will use that in the next iteration.