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Re: [PATCH] Use longer alias names in subdirectory tests

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 29, 2012, 03:42 UTC
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Aaron Schrab <aaron@schrab.com> writes:
> When testing aliases in t/t1020-subdirectory.sh use longer names so that
> they're less likely to conflict with a git-* command somewhere in the
> $PATH.
Thanks.

In the longer term we might want to rethink the way we run the tests so that random $PATH the user has has less chance of interacting with our tests (we had a similar topic around completion output recently), but until that happens, I think this is a good change.

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