[RFC/PATCH 0/2] tests: stop hard-coding the list of GIT_* vars to scrub

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 15, 2011, 10:08 UTC
Message-ID: <20110315100846.GB3923@elie>
In-Reply-To: <20110315073718.GB11754@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:

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> According to posix, just running "set" provides an unambiguous,
> parseable output. The problem is that it's actual shell, so it's a
> little tricky to parse (it's single-quoted, and you have to follow
> values across embedded newlines). So it's probably not worth the
> headache.
>
> Having a big list of "clear these variables" is probably not the end of
> the world.

Here's one way (using perl), for what it's worth.

Jonathan Nieder (2):
  tests: stop worrying about obsolete environment variables
  tests: scrub environment of GIT_* variables

 t/test-lib.sh |   30 +++++-------------------------
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)