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Re: [PATCH 2/2] t5510: do not leave changed cwd

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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date
Mar 4, 2016, 13:04 UTC
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Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 04.03.2016 12:52:
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> On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 11:53:50AM +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> 
>> t5510 carefully keeps the cwd at the test root by using either subshells
>> or explicit cd'ing back to the root. Use a subshell for the last
>> subtest, too.
> 
> I doubt this caused the heisenbug you saw, as we should have an absolute
> path for the trash-dir, and we "cd" to its containing directory before
> deleting it. But this is definitely a good thing to be doing anyway, to
> prevent surprises for new tests added to t5510.
Absolutely ;)
Michael
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Message 8 of 9 in “Test trash dir sanitizing”
  1. 0/2 Test trash dir sanitizingMichael J Gruber, Mar 4, 2016
  2. 1/2 test-lib: quote TRASH_DIRECTORYMichael J Gruber, Mar 4, 2016
  3. Jeff KingMar 4, 2016
  4. Michael J GruberMar 4, 2016
  5. Jeff KingMar 4, 2016
  6. 2/2 t5510: do not leave changed cwdMichael J Gruber, Mar 4, 2016
  7. Jeff KingMar 4, 2016
  8. Michael J GruberMar 4, 2016
  9. Junio C HamanoMar 4, 2016

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