Re: 3 failures on test t9100 (svn)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 3, 2010, 20:01 UTC
Message-ID: <7vr5o1p42d.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100303172302.GA10168@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 01:58:04AM +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
>
>> >   GIT_TEST_CMP='diff -u'
>> >   test_cmp() {
>> >     $GIT_TEST_CMP "$@"
>> >   }
>> > 
>> > which _should_ split the "diff -u" on whitespace.
>> 
>> I've tried with these exact lines without more success.
>
> That's weird. Can you test this in each of your shells:
>
>   foo() {
>     echo "in foo, arg=$1"
>   }
>   VARIABLE='foo bar'
>   $VARIABLE
>
> It should print "in foo, arg=bar". If it doesn't, then the shell is
> broken.

The only other possibility I can think of is if somebody futz with IFS, in order to e.g. use the "word splitting" logic for "line splitting" (or "split at colon"), and forgets to restore the original value.