From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:42:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HOME must be set before calling git-init when creating test repositories
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=Pt_Pw9BvL6y8Wq34PeRHVOZpr6ZekRYqfDXq6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110326183102.GA3796@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 19:31, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 07:21:26PM +0100, Alex Riesen wrote:
>
>> > No, it's totally broken. $(pwd)/$test is nonsensical. The code right
>> > above your change guarantees that $test is an absolute path, either
>> > because the user gave us an absolute $root or because it has been
>> > prepended with $TEST_DIRECTORY (which itself comes from $(pwd)).
>>
>> I see. I mistook "$root" for the root of a filesystem, not the variable in
>> test-lib.sh. How about this, than?
>
> Oops, when I said "$test" I meant to say $TRASH_DIRECTORY. That is,
> $TRASH_DIRECTORY is always the absolute path to the trash.
>
>> +HOME="$(pwd)/$test"
>> +test -n "$root" && HOME="$test"
>> +export HOME
>
> So you can simplify this to just:
>
> HOME=$TRASH_DIRECTORY
>

Aah... I should have actually looked at the "case" which
sets TRASH_DIRECTORY!

Will resend in a moment.