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Re: Black smoke from git rebase -i exec

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Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
Aug 10, 2010, 14:12 UTC
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Am 8/10/2010 15:57, schrieb Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason:
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> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 13:37, Matthieu Moy
> <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
>> Ęvar Arnfjörš Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> There's some black smoke in pu after the git rebase -i series was
>>> applied: http://smoke.git.nix.is/app/projects/report_details/14
>>
>> Strange, I can't reproduce this on my box (tried on RHEL x86_64 and
>> Debian i686).
> 
> Hi. The issue appears to be that there's some non-POSIX code in your
> patch (but I didn't check what). The test works for me with bash, but
> fails with dash (which is the Debian testing /bin/sh).
> 
> Can you try with dash or some other non-bash POSIX shell and see if it
> fails?
The culprit is commands like these:
	FAKE_LINES="exec_echo_foo_>file1 1" \
		test_must_fail git rebase -i HEAD^ &&

You cannot apply single-command-export if the command is a shell function. You must rewrite this as:

	(
		export FAKE_LINES="..." &&
		test_must_fail git rebase ....
	) &&
-- Hannes
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Message 4 of 38 in “Black smoke from git rebase -i exec”
  1. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 10, 2010
  2. Matthieu MoyAug 10, 2010
  3. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 10, 2010
  4. Johannes SixtAug 10, 2010
  5. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 10, 2010
  6. Matthieu MoyAug 10, 2010
  7. 1/2 rebase -i: add exec command to launch a shell commandMatthieu Moy, Aug 10, 2010
  8. Junio C HamanoAug 11, 2010
  9. Matthieu MoyAug 12, 2010
  10. 0/2 rebase -i: in-editor documentation nitsJonathan Nieder, Jan 16, 2011
  11. 1/2 rebase -i: reword in-editor documentation of "exec"Jonathan Nieder, Jan 16, 2011
  12. Matthieu MoyJan 16, 2011
  13. Junio C HamanoJan 18, 2011
  14. Jonathan NiederJan 20, 2011
  15. Junio C HamanoJan 20, 2011
  16. 1/2 rebase -i: clarify in-editor documentation of "exec"Jonathan Nieder, Jan 21, 2011
  17. Matthieu MoyJan 21, 2011
  18. Jonathan NiederJan 21, 2011
  19. Matthieu MoyJan 21, 2011
  20. 2/2 rebase -i: explain how to discard all commitsJonathan Nieder, Jan 16, 2011
  21. 2/2 Re: rebase -i: explain how to discard all commitsNicolas Sebrecht, Jan 20, 2011
  22. Jonathan NiederJan 20, 2011
  23. 2/2 Re: rebase -i: explain how to discard all commitsNicolas Sebrecht, Jan 20, 2011
  24. Thomas RastJan 20, 2011
  25. Junio C HamanoJan 20, 2011
  26. Johannes SchindelinJan 21, 2011
  27. Documentation: suggest "reset --keep" to undo a commitJonathan Nieder, Jan 21, 2011
  28. Junio C HamanoJan 21, 2011
  29. Jonathan NiederJan 21, 2011
  30. Junio C HamanoJan 21, 2011
  31. Junio C HamanoJan 21, 2011
  32. Matthieu MoyJan 21, 2011
  33. Joshua JensenJan 21, 2011
  34. Documentation: do not treat reset --keep as a special caseJonathan Nieder, Jan 21, 2011
  35. Junio C HamanoJan 21, 2011
  36. Jay SoffianJan 26, 2011
  37. Johannes SchindelinJan 23, 2011
  38. 2/2 test-lib: user-friendly alternatives to test [-d|-f|-e]Matthieu Moy, Aug 10, 2010

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