From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:34:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tests: sanitize more git environment variables
Message-ID: <20110126203444.GB27478@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110126203331.GA27478@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 03:33:32PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

> These variables should generally not be set in one's
> environment, but they do get set by rebase, which means
> doing an interactive rebase like:
> 
>   pick abcd1234 foo
>   exec make test
> 
> will cause false negatives in the test suite.

Or I guess false positives, depending on your definition of positive and
negative. I.e., tests will fail when they shouldn't. :)

-Peff