Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2021, #02; Fri, 8)

> On 1/14/2021 6:06 PM, Emily Shaffer wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 11:22:23AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> * ds/maintenance-part-4 (2021-01-05) 4 commits
>>>   (merged to 'next' on 2021-01-08 at 1f98c859ea)
>>>  + maintenance: use Windows scheduled tasks
>>>  + maintenance: use launchctl on macOS
>>>  + maintenance: include 'cron' details in docs
>>>  + maintenance: extract platform-specific scheduling
>>>
>>>  Follow-up on the "maintenance part-3" which introduced scheduled
>>>  maintenance tasks to support platforms whose native scheduling
>>>  methods are not 'cron'.
>>>
>>>  Will merge to 'master'.
>>
>> This series again has troubles running inside a directory with regex
>> metachars in the path. Courtesy of Jonathan Nieder, I think this fix
>> matches the intent a little better; but if we don't like this, the same
>> lines could be diffed just to add --fixed-value instead.

>>
>> diff --git a/t/t7900-maintenance.sh b/t/t7900-maintenance.sh
>> index 2e0c8a4c31..0edad63227 100755
>> --- a/t/t7900-maintenance.sh
>> +++ b/t/t7900-maintenance.sh
>> @@ -487,7 +487,9 @@ test_expect_success 'start and stop macOS maintenance' '
>>  	GIT_TEST_MAINT_SCHEDULER=launchctl:./print-args git maintenance start &&
>>  
>>  	# start registers the repo
>> -	git config --get --global maintenance.repo "$(pwd)" &&
>> +	pwd >expect &&
>> +	git config --get --global maintenance.repo >actual &&
>> +	test_cmp expect actual &&
> 
> Sorry again, but this (and others) would probably be better as
> 
> +	git config --get --global --fixed-value maintenance.repo "$(pwd)" &&