From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:55:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t9600-cvsimport.sh: set HOME before checking for cvsps availability
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In-Reply-To: <20080326173420.16383.qmail@4b0e1e5c705f62.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>

Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> writes:

> From: Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
>
> This actually sounds like a bug in cvsps, which requires an existing
> home directory when asked for the usage through -h
>
>  $ HOME=/nonexistent cvsps -h
>  Cannot create the cvsps directory '.cvsps': No such file or directory

Thanks.

In the longer run, we probably would want to do something similar for all
tests to ensure a stable testing environment, don't we?  $HOME/.gitconfig
may affect the way tested programs behave otherwise.