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Re: [PATCH] t6030: use $SHELL_PATH to invoke user's preferred shell instead of bare sh

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Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date
Aug 30, 2011, 20:55 UTC
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On 08/30/2011 03:27 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
>>> +	git bisect run \"$SHELL_PATH\" -c '
>>>  		GOOD=\$(git for-each-ref \"--format=%(objectname)\" refs/bisect/good-*) &&
>>>  		git rev-list --objects BISECT_HEAD --not \$GOOD >tmp.\$\$ &&
>>>  		git pack-objects --stdout >/dev/null < tmp.\$\$
>>
>> Hmm, shouldn't we also be quoting '$' in front of SHELL_PATH to make the
>> test_expect_success interpolate the value of SHELL_PATH, instead of hoping
>> that SHELL_PATH does not have double-quote in it when the shell that forms
>> parameters given to test_expect_success interpolates it?
Yep, makes sense.  Good catch.  Thanks.
-Brandon
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> By doing this silly thing:
> 
> 	$ mkdir '/var/tmp/a"b c/'
>         $ ln -s /bin/sh '/var/tmp/a"b c/shell'
> 
> and then adding
> 
> 	SHELL_PATH='/var/tmp/a"b c/shell'
> 
> after we source "test-lib.sh" in t6030, I see this breaks when the shell
> parses to figure out what parameters to call test_expect_success with.
> 
>  t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh b/t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh
> index 68c0e97..cd9de63 100755
> --- a/t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh
> +++ b/t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh
> @@ -701,7 +701,7 @@ test_expect_success 'bisect: demonstrate identification of damage boundary' "
>  	git bisect reset &&
>  	git checkout broken &&
>  	git bisect start broken master --no-checkout &&
> -	git bisect run \"$SHELL_PATH\" -c '
> +	git bisect run \"\$SHELL_PATH\" -c '
>  		GOOD=\$(git for-each-ref \"--format=%(objectname)\" refs/bisect/good-*) &&
>  		git rev-list --objects BISECT_HEAD --not \$GOOD >tmp.\$\$ &&
>  		git pack-objects --stdout >/dev/null < tmp.\$\$
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  1. t6030: use $SHELL_PATH to invoke user's preferred shell instead of bare shBrandon Casey, Aug 29, 2011
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