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[PATCH 6/6] t: teach lint that RHS of 'local VAR=VAL' needs to be quoted

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 6, 2024, 00:09 UTC
Message-ID
<20240406000902.3082301-7-gitster@pobox.com>
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Teach t/check-non-portable-shell.pl that right hand side of the assignment done with "local VAR=VAL" need to be quoted. We deliberately target only VAL that begins with $ so that we can catch

 - $variable_reference and positional parameter reference like $4
 - $(command substitution)
 - ${variable_reference-with_magic}
while excluding
 - $'\n' that is a bash-ism freely usable in t990[23]
 - $(( arithmetic )) whose result should be $IFS safe.
 - $? that also is $IFS safe
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 t/check-non-portable-shell.pl | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/t/check-non-portable-shell.pl b/t/check-non-portable-shell.pl
index dd8107cd7d..b2b28c2ced 100755
--- a/t/check-non-portable-shell.pl
+++ b/t/check-non-portable-shell.pl
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ sub err {
 	/\bgrep\b.*--file\b/ and err 'grep --file FILE is not portable (use grep -f FILE)';
 	/\b[ef]grep\b/ and err 'egrep/fgrep obsolescent (use grep -E/-F)';
 	/\bexport\s+[A-Za-z0-9_]*=/ and err '"export FOO=bar" is not portable (use FOO=bar && export FOO)';
+	/\blocal\s+[A-Za-z0-9_]*=\$([A-Za-z0-9_{]|[(][^(])/ and
+		err q(quote "$val" in 'local var=$val');
 	/^\s*([A-Z0-9_]+=(\w*|(["']).*?\3)\s+)+(\w+)/ and exists($func{$4}) and
 		err '"FOO=bar shell_func" assignment extends beyond "shell_func"';
 	$line = '';
-- 
2.44.0-501-g19981daefd
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  1. 0/6 local VAR="VAL"Junio C Hamano, Apr 6, 2024
  2. 1/6 CodingGuidelines: describe "export VAR=VAL" ruleJunio C Hamano, Apr 6, 2024
  3. Eric SunshineApr 6, 2024
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 6, 2024
  5. Andreas SchwabApr 6, 2024
  6. Junio C HamanoApr 6, 2024
  7. Eric SunshineApr 6, 2024
  8. 3/6 t: local VAR="VAL" (quote positional parameters)Junio C Hamano, Apr 6, 2024
  9. Patrick SteinhardtApr 8, 2024
  10. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2024
  11. 2/6 CodingGuidelines: quote assigned value in 'local var=$val'Junio C Hamano, Apr 6, 2024
  12. rsbecker@nexbridge.comApr 6, 2024
  13. Junio C HamanoApr 6, 2024
  14. Eric SunshineApr 6, 2024
  15. Junio C HamanoApr 6, 2024
  16. 4/6 t: local VAR="VAL" (quote command substitution)Junio C Hamano, Apr 6, 2024
  17. 5/6 t: local VAR="VAL" (quote ${magic-reference})Junio C Hamano, Apr 6, 2024
  18. 6/6 t: teach lint that RHS of 'local VAR=VAL' needs to be quotedJunio C Hamano, Apr 6, 2024
  19. Jeff KingApr 7, 2024
  20. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2024
  21. Jeff KingApr 8, 2024
  22. 7/6 t0610: local VAR="VAL" fixJunio C Hamano, Apr 6, 2024
  23. 8/6 t1016: local VAR="VAL" fixJunio C Hamano, Apr 6, 2024

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