From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 04:06:23 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCHv6 01/16] test-lib: make test_expect_code a test command Message-ID: <20101004040623.GC24884@burratino> In-Reply-To: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 03:50, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> I suspect the best thing would be to export TEST_DIRECTORY >> instead of including it inline in the script. > > We could do that, but then you couldn't cd to the trash directory and > manually run the test without exporting the path to TEST_DIRECTORY > again. Okay, then how about: : ${TEST_DIRECTORY=$(cd ../.. && pwd)} . "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/test-lib.sh i.e., accepting TEST_DIRECTORY from the environment if and only if it is available?