From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:28:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test: skip test with COLUMNS=1 under mksh
Message-ID: <7vsjfmxm65.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4F9BCFD9.8020005@in.waw.pl>

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> writes:

> This approach with 'env COLUMNS=1 git ...' looks nicer, and works when
> invoked directly, but doesn't work when run under the test harness,
> because bin-wrappers/git uses !/bin/sh, which resets COLUMNS. So this
> simpler approach doesn't look feasible.

Sigh... That shell seem to be infinitely broken X-<.