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From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t1304: Set LOGNAME even if USER is unset or null
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 08:28:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141020152809.GR17200@odin.tremily.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqegu3r7y7.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

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On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 03:49:36PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I'll queue this as-is, but it makes me wonder if we want to do this
> without if/then/fi, e.g.
> 
> 	: ${LOGNAME:=${USER:-$(id -u -n)}

I'm fine with that too.

> Spelling everything out with if/then/fi is obviously at the other
> extreme, i.e.

And I'm fine with this ;).

> More importantly, what if none of the alternatives work?  I
> personally feel it is OK to punt and declare test_done early,
> instead of giving false positive breakages like you saw without this
> patch.

I can put this into a v2 if you like.  Which conditional syntax do you
prefer?

Cheers,
Trevor

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-20 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-17 21:39 [PATCH] t1304: Set LOGNAME even if USER is unset or null W. Trevor King
2014-10-19 22:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-20 15:28   ` W. Trevor King [this message]
2014-10-20 18:34     ` Junio C Hamano

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