From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git discussion list <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Fabian <bafain@gmail.com>,
Quint Guvernator <quintus.public@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: New GSoC microproject ideas
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 18:06:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5321E59F.8020003@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1ty7me6a.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
On 03/12/2014 08:04 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Here is another, as I seem to have managed to kill another one ;-)
>
> -- >8 --
>
> "VAR=VAL command" is sufficient to run 'command' with environment
> variable VAR set to value VAL without affecting the environment of
> the shell itself, but we cannot do the same with a shell function
> (most notably, "test_must_fail"); we have subshell invocations with
> multiple lines like this:
>
> ... &&
> (
> VAR=VAL &&
> export VAR &&
> test_must_fail git command
> ) &&
> ...
>
> but that could be expressed as
>
> ... &&
> test_must_fail env VAR=VAL git comand &&
> ...
>
> Find and shorten such constructs in existing test scripts.
Thanks; I just added it.
Michael
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-13 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-12 11:48 New GSoC microproject ideas Michael Haggerty
2014-03-12 19:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-12 19:16 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-12 19:21 ` Jeff King
2014-03-12 20:37 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-12 20:44 ` Jeff King
2014-03-12 21:12 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-13 17:06 ` Michael Haggerty [this message]
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