Re: [PATCH] t9001: set TERM=dumb to prevent ANSI output

[Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>]

Le vendredi 7 mars 2008, Junio C Hamano a écrit :
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> > At least on one of my machines, Term::ReadLine tries to be clever and
> > sends \x1b\x5b1034h at the end of the script when TERM is set to
> > 'xterm'.
> >
> > To prevent that, force TERM=dumb just for the test.
>
> We try to set up a pretty vanilla environment for test repeatability in
> t/test-lib.sh, and I suspect we would simply want to do this over there.
>
> Wouldn't this make more sense?
>
> diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
> index 87a5ea4..7f6331a 100644
> --- a/t/test-lib.sh
> +++ b/t/test-lib.sh
> @@ -7,8 +7,9 @@
>  LANG=C
>  LC_ALL=C
>  PAGER=cat
> +TERM=dumb
>  TZ=UTC
> -export LANG LC_ALL PAGER TZ
> +export LANG LC_ALL PAGER TERM TZ
>  EDITOR=:
>  VISUAL=:
>  unset GIT_EDITOR

This may not work well with colored output.
In test-lib.sh line 62 there is :

[ "x$TERM" != "xdumb" ] &&
	[ -t 1 ] &&
	tput bold >/dev/null 2>&1 &&
	tput setaf 1 >/dev/null 2>&1 &&
	tput sgr0 >/dev/null 2>&1 &&
	color=t

Thanks,
Christian.