From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:37:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t1402: work around shell quoting issue on NetBSD
Message-ID: <7vboczcq5a.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <50EC8BE7.2010508@lsrfire.ath.cx>

René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:

> A quick check shows that subtests 64-68 and 89-93 of t0008 fail for me
> on Debian (10 in total) and subtests 64 and 89 fail on NetBSD (2 in
> total).  Unlike t1402 they don't report "bug in the test script".
>
> t0008 only uses ${:+} substitution on variables that don't contain
> spaces.  With the test changed to store the description in a variable
> first I still get the same 2 failures.
>
> There must be something else going on here.  The different results are
> interesting, especially the higher number of failures on Debian.

I forgot to mention that some of them seem to be broken under dash
but pass under bash.