From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t/test-lib.sh: do not trust $SHELL
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:58:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120921205834.GC22977@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348260766-25287-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com>
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 02:22:46AM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> Replace $SHELL with an explicit `/bin/sh`, as some shells do not
> support all the features used in the script. For example, ZSH does
> not respect IFS, which is used in line 478.
I don't think that is the right thing to do. The point of SHELL is to
point at a bourne-compatible shell. On some systems, the main reason to
set it is that /bin/sh is _broken_, and we are trying to avoid it.
A bigger question is: why are you setting SHELL=zsh in the first place?
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-21 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-17 17:01 How do I run tests under Valgrind? Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-17 17:20 ` Jeff King
2012-09-17 17:23 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-17 17:35 ` Jeff King
2012-09-17 17:39 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-17 17:44 ` Jeff King
2012-09-17 17:55 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-09-17 17:57 ` Jeff King
2012-09-17 18:28 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
[not found] ` <CALkWK0mkBbY7dUyaZAqqKE3ZMfE_xU6em_KCOKM9nsTjUP-9pA@mail.gmail.com>
2012-09-17 18:29 ` Jeff King
2012-09-21 19:31 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-21 19:58 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-21 20:13 ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-09-21 20:17 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-21 20:46 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-21 20:49 ` Jeff King
2012-09-22 13:03 ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-09-22 17:47 ` Jeff King
2012-09-22 18:20 ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-09-22 20:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-21 20:52 ` [PATCH] t/test-lib.sh: do not trust $SHELL Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-21 20:58 ` Jeff King [this message]
2012-09-21 21:07 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-21 21:12 ` Jeff King
2012-09-21 21:34 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-21 21:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-09-21 22:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-22 4:26 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-22 4:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-22 4:54 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-22 4:57 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-22 20:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-26 3:49 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-21 21:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-21 22:15 ` Jeff King
2012-09-21 21:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-09-21 21:13 ` Jeff King
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