From: Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] t3301: use test_must_fail instead of !
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:29:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2b179460902170129s7ae613cehe237619be5e84936@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090215181818.GA2291@coredump.intra.peff.net>
2009/2/15 Jeff King <peff@peff.net>:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 05:11:40PM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote:
>> Is there a "bare minimum" POSIX shell that I can run the tests under,
>> to save myself such embarassment in the future?
>
> Using "dash" will catch bash-isms, and is pretty commonly available, I
> think. But this behavior, IIRC, happens on FreeBSD's /bin/sh, which is
> derived from "ash" (so is "dash", but I they have long since diverged).
>
> There are even more quirks on more exotic systems, I expect, though I
> have to admit that I gave up on Solaris and just started using bash
> there. :)
>
> So I don't think there is a catch-all shell that will help you, but some
> "ash" variant is probably your best bet.
posh? http://packages.debian.org/lenny/posh
I've heard that if you unset POSIXLY_CORRECT it just sits there and
hums until you set it again. 8-)
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-17 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-14 19:15 [PATCH 1/4] notes: only clean up message file when editing Thomas Rast
2009-02-14 19:15 ` [PATCH 2/4] notes: use GIT_EDITOR and core.editor over VISUAL/EDITOR Thomas Rast
2009-02-14 19:29 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-14 19:15 ` [PATCH 3/4] t3301: fix confusing test for valid notes ref Thomas Rast
2009-02-14 19:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-14 19:15 ` [PATCH 4/4] notes: refuse to edit notes outside refs/notes/ Thomas Rast
2009-02-14 19:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-14 19:56 ` Thomas Rast
2009-02-14 20:23 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] notes: only clean up message file when editing Thomas Rast
2009-02-15 7:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-14 20:23 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] notes: use GIT_EDITOR and core.editor over VISUAL/EDITOR Thomas Rast
2009-02-14 20:23 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] t3301: fix confusing quoting in test for valid notes ref Thomas Rast
2009-02-14 20:23 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] t3301: use test_must_fail instead of ! Thomas Rast
2009-02-14 21:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-15 7:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-15 16:11 ` Thomas Rast
2009-02-15 18:18 ` Jeff King
2009-02-15 22:07 ` Thomas Rast
2009-02-17 9:29 ` Mike Ralphson [this message]
2009-02-17 16:34 ` Jeff King
2009-02-17 18:00 ` Mike Ralphson
2009-02-17 20:27 ` Jeff King
2009-02-18 6:41 ` Jeff King
2009-02-18 10:14 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-18 10:16 ` Jeff King
2009-02-18 11:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-19 0:37 ` Jeff King
2009-02-19 0:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-19 0:46 ` Jeff King
2009-02-17 8:44 ` Thomas Rast
2009-02-17 8:46 ` Thomas Rast
2009-02-17 16:56 ` Brandon Casey
2009-02-17 22:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-17 22:53 ` [PATCH] test suite: correct export var=val usage Jay Soffian
2009-02-17 23:47 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-18 0:37 ` Jay Soffian
2009-02-17 22:54 ` Jay Soffian
2009-02-17 22:57 ` Jay Soffian
2009-02-18 10:06 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2009-02-18 13:19 ` Jay Soffian
2009-02-18 13:29 ` Jay Soffian
2009-02-18 13:34 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-18 16:56 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2009-02-18 17:05 ` Thomas Rast
2009-02-18 20:55 ` [PATCH v2] " Jay Soffian
2009-02-14 20:23 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] notes: refuse to edit notes outside refs/notes/ Thomas Rast
2009-02-14 19:29 ` [PATCH 1/4] notes: only clean up message file when editing Johannes Schindelin
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