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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] multi-pack-index: fix --object-dir from outside repo
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 01:05:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqo89osi0b.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d65ef5b0a9e4104d763facc42d10a20557d054d.camel@sipsolutions.net> (Johannes Berg's message of "Mon, 23 Aug 2021 09:21:10 +0200")

Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:

> I just needed to go outside the current test git directory, the tests
> are running in a way that the current working directory is already the
> git tree I'm operating in.
>
>> Even if you mean to use "cd",
>> please do so within a sub-shell.
>
> I thought about it, but clearly all the tests are run in a sub-shell, so
> it didn't seem necessary? But happy to change, I don't really care
> either way.

Please learn to care before you write your next test, then ;-)

These tests are not run in a sub-shell; they are eval'ed, so that
the assignment they make to variables can persist and affect the
next test piece.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-23  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-20 19:35 [PATCH] multi-pack-index: fix --object-dir from outside repo Johannes Berg
2021-08-22 23:51 ` Derrick Stolee
2021-08-23  7:21   ` Johannes Berg
2021-08-23  8:05     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-08-23  8:10       ` Johannes Berg
2021-08-23 13:19         ` Derrick Stolee
2021-08-23 13:40           ` Johannes Berg
2021-08-23 16:16             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-08-23 16:06         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-08-23  0:54 ` Taylor Blau
2021-08-23  7:32   ` Johannes Berg

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