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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Derrick Stolee" <derrickstolee@github.com>,
	rsbecker@nexbridge.com, "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>,
	"Johannes Sixt" <j6t@kdbg.org>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] config tests: fix harmless but broken "rm -r" cleanup
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 22:37:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq8rpp8div.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq4k0dfxxm.fsf@gitster.g> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:34:29 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>  test_expect_success 'override global and system config' '
>> -	test_when_finished rm -f "$HOME"/.config/git &&
>> +	test_when_finished "rm -rf \"$HOME\"/.config/git" &&
>
> As this string is evaled, isn't it safer to defer dereferencing the
> environment variable at the runtime by quoting the dollar-sign, too?
>
> I.e.
>
> 	test_when_finished rm -rf \"\$HOME\"/.config/git &&
>
> or something?

It probably would matter if $HOME had a double-quote in it, I think

  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-22  5:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-21 22:21 [PATCH 0/3] tests: fix tests broken if a " " is in the checkout dir's path Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-06-21 22:21 ` [PATCH 1/3] tests: add missing double quotes to included library paths Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-06-21 22:42   ` Junio C Hamano
2022-06-21 22:21 ` [PATCH 2/3] test-lib.sh: fix prepend_var() quoting issue Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-06-21 22:21 ` [PATCH 3/3] config tests: fix harmless but broken "rm -r" cleanup Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-06-21 22:34   ` Junio C Hamano
2022-06-22  5:37     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2022-06-30 10:18 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] tests: fix tests broken if a " " is in the checkout dir's path Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-06-30 10:18   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] tests: add missing double quotes to included library paths Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-06-30 10:18   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] test-lib.sh: fix prepend_var() quoting issue Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-06-30 10:18   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] config tests: fix harmless but broken "rm -r" cleanup Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-06-30 20:52     ` Junio C Hamano

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