From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: David Tran <unsignedzero@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tests: set temp variables using 'env' in test function instead of subshell
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:06:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140318230658.GA10679@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy5075f0k.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 03:16:27PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Isn't GIT_CONFIG here another way of saying:
> >
> > test_must_fail git config -f doesnotexist --list
> >
> > Perhaps that is shorter and more readable still (and there are a few
> > similar cases in this patch.
>
> Surely, but are we assuming that "git config" correctly honors the
> equivalence between GIT_CONFIG=file and -f file, or is that also
> something we are testing in these tests?
I think we can assume that they are equivalent, and it is not worth
testing (and they are equivalent in code since 270a344 (config: stop
using config_exclusive_filename, 2012-02-16).
My recollection is that GIT_CONFIG mostly exists as a historical
footnote. Recall that at one time it affected all commands, but that had
many problems and was done away with in dc87183 (Only use GIT_CONFIG in
"git config", not other programs, 2008-06-30). I think we left it in
place for git-config mostly for backward compatibility, but I didn't see
that point explicitly addressed in the list discussion (the main issue
was that setting it for things besides "git config" is a bad idea, as it
suppresses ~/.gitconfig).
-Peff
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2014-03-18 12:08 ` [PATCH v2] tests: set temp variables using 'env' in test function instead of subshell David Tran
2014-03-18 20:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-18 21:45 ` Jeff King
2014-03-18 22:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-18 23:06 ` Jeff King [this message]
2014-03-19 17:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-20 23:11 ` [PATCH 0/12] GIT_CONFIG in the test suite Jeff King
2014-03-20 23:13 ` [PATCH 01/12] t/Makefile: stop setting GIT_CONFIG Jeff King
2014-03-20 23:13 ` [PATCH 02/12] t/test-lib: drop redundant unset of GIT_CONFIG Jeff King
2014-03-20 23:14 ` [PATCH 03/12] t: drop useless sane_unset GIT_* calls Jeff King
2014-03-21 21:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-24 21:56 ` Jeff King
2014-03-24 22:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-25 4:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-20 23:15 ` [PATCH 04/12] t: stop using GIT_CONFIG to cross repo boundaries Jeff King
2014-03-21 21:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-24 22:00 ` Jeff King
2014-03-20 23:15 ` [PATCH 05/12] t: prefer "git config --file" to GIT_CONFIG with test_must_fail Jeff King
2014-03-20 23:17 ` [PATCH 06/12] t: prefer "git config --file" to GIT_CONFIG Jeff King
2014-03-20 23:17 ` [PATCH 07/12] t0001: make symlink reinit test more careful Jeff King
2014-03-20 23:17 ` [PATCH 08/12] t0001: use test_path_is_* Jeff King
2014-03-20 23:18 ` [PATCH 09/12] t0001: use test_config_global Jeff King
2014-03-20 23:19 ` [PATCH 10/12] t0001: use test_must_fail Jeff King
2014-03-20 23:21 ` [PATCH 11/12] t0001: drop useless subshells Jeff King
2014-03-21 20:27 ` Eric Sunshine
2014-03-20 23:23 ` [PATCH 12/12] t0001: drop subshells just for "cd" Jeff King
2014-03-18 22:36 ` [PATCH v2] tests: set temp variables using 'env' in test function instead of subshell Eric Sunshine
2014-03-18 20:52 ` Eric Sunshine
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