From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 18:19:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Git in Outreachy December 2019?
Message-ID: <20190923181950.GB21344@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1909231444590.15067@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 02:47:23PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> The evaluation of the lazy prereq is indeed not different between Bash
> or dash. It is nevertheless quite disruptive in the trace of a test
> script, especially when it is evaluated for a test case that is skipped
> explicitly via the `--run` option.

That sounds like a bug: if we know we are not going to run the test
anyway due to --run or GIT_TEST_SKIP, we should probably avoid checking
the prereq at all.

-Peff