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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] t5510: do not leave changed cwd
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 06:52:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160304115255.GB8355@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f6499302a5dfb52bf6c9430581103da9569434a3.1457088499.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 11:53:50AM +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote:

> t5510 carefully keeps the cwd at the test root by using either subshells
> or explicit cd'ing back to the root. Use a subshell for the last
> subtest, too.

I doubt this caused the heisenbug you saw, as we should have an absolute
path for the trash-dir, and we "cd" to its containing directory before
deleting it. But this is definitely a good thing to be doing anyway, to
prevent surprises for new tests added to t5510.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-04 11:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-04 10:53 [PATCH/RFC 0/2] Test trash dir sanitizing Michael J Gruber
2016-03-04 10:53 ` [PATCH 1/2] test-lib: quote TRASH_DIRECTORY Michael J Gruber
2016-03-04 11:51   ` Jeff King
2016-03-04 13:03     ` Michael J Gruber
2016-03-04 13:09       ` Jeff King
2016-03-04 10:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] t5510: do not leave changed cwd Michael J Gruber
2016-03-04 11:52   ` Jeff King [this message]
2016-03-04 13:04     ` Michael J Gruber
2016-03-04 18:38       ` Junio C Hamano

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