From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Haggerty Subject: Re: New GSoC microproject ideas Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 18:06:39 +0100 Message-ID: <5321E59F.8020003@alum.mit.edu> References: <532049A7.6000304@alum.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git discussion list , Fabian , Quint Guvernator To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 13 18:06:48 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WO95k-0001Sf-Gl for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 18:06:48 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754402AbaCMRGo (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:06:44 -0400 Received: from alum-mailsec-scanner-2.mit.edu ([18.7.68.13]:54620 "EHLO alum-mailsec-scanner-2.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753950AbaCMRGn (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:06:43 -0400 X-AuditID: 1207440d-f79d86d0000043db-a1-5321e5a21357 Received: from outgoing-alum.mit.edu (OUTGOING-ALUM.MIT.EDU [18.7.68.33]) by alum-mailsec-scanner-2.mit.edu (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id 35.3F.17371.2A5E1235; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:06:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.69.148] (p57A24737.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [87.162.71.55]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as mhagger@ALUM.MIT.EDU) by outgoing-alum.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.12.4) with ESMTP id s2DH6evH007407 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:06:41 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20131103 Icedove/17.0.10 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFlrNKsWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsUixO6iqLvoqWKwwdGPohaH5t5jt+i60s1k 0dB7hdniXXc/swOLx85Zd9k9Ll5S9vi8SS6AOYrbJimxpCw4Mz1P3y6BO+PTnu3sBX/ZKuY0 lTYwNrF2MXJySAiYSBz69I8FwhaTuHBvPVsXIxeHkMBlRom1U08zQTjnmCQ+tKxgAqniFdCW OPOkHaybRUBVorV3ITOIzSagK7GopxmsRlQgWGL15QcsEPWCEidnPgGzRQTUJCa2HQKyOTiY Beokfr50AAkLC2hIfL7+CGykkECUxOwf98BsTgFriUnr17GDlEsIiEv0NAaBhJkFdCTe9T1g hrDlJba/ncM8gVFwFpJls5CUzUJStoCReRWjXGJOaa5ubmJmTnFqsm5xcmJeXmqRrpFebmaJ XmpK6SZGSGDz7mD8v07mEKMAB6MSD6/DYcVgIdbEsuLK3EOMkhxMSqK87I+BQnxJ+SmVGYnF GfFFpTmpxYcYJTiYlUR4ZS4D5XhTEiurUovyYVLSHCxK4rxqS9T9hATSE0tSs1NTC1KLYLIy HBxKErzHngA1ChalpqdWpGXmlCCkmTg4QYZzSYkUp+alpBYllpZkxIOiN74YGL8gKR6gvTtB 2nmLCxJzgaIQracYdTlut/36xCjEkpeflyolzvsQ5HABkKKM0jy4FbA09opRHOhjYd7TIKN4 gCkQbtIroCVMQEt+BMiDLClJREhJNTAq7f1iWcVX1/LxsfPrF7u8mJmErK3TrzM4zxEX9xM8 cb/PzEvF/dqHNpNHnMlrd3TkLj7SkOvMca4wlP3j26mpM7YzvytRqLezdukqe/gy Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@alum.mit.edu http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/