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Re: [PATCH] t1304: Set LOGNAME even if USER is unset or null

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W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Date
Oct 20, 2014, 15:28 UTC
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<20141020152809.GR17200@odin.tremily.us>
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On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 03:49:36PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I'll queue this as-is, but it makes me wonder if we want to do this
> without if/then/fi, e.g.
> 
> 	: ${LOGNAME:=${USER:-$(id -u -n)}
I'm fine with that too.
> Spelling everything out with if/then/fi is obviously at the other
> extreme, i.e.
And I'm fine with this ;).
> More importantly, what if none of the alternatives work?  I
> personally feel it is OK to punt and declare test_done early,
> instead of giving false positive breakages like you saw without this
> patch.

I can put this into a v2 if you like. Which conditional syntax do you prefer?

Cheers, Trevor

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  1. t1304: Set LOGNAME even if USER is unset or nullW. Trevor King, Oct 17, 2014
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 19, 2014
  3. W. Trevor KingOct 20, 2014
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 20, 2014

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