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Re: [PATCH] HOME must be set before calling git-init when creating test repositories

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 25, 2011, 21:51 UTC
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On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 22:30, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 21:49, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Doesn't this change the location of HOME used during the test as well?
>>
>> As long as the test only includes test-lib.sh only once - it doesn't.
>> Why? Or rather, how?
>
> I thought you moved HOME=$(pwd) across "cd somewhere-else".  Doesn't it
> change what is returned from pwd?
>

Oh, it does. That's why the second patch (prefixed "[PATCH, fixed]"). It makes HOME to be "$(pwd)/somewhere-else", or precisely:

  HOME="$(pwd)"/"$test"
  export HOME
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  1. HOME must be set before calling git-init when creating test repositoriesAlex Riesen, Mar 25, 2011
  2. HOME must be set before calling git-init when creating test repositoriesAlex Riesen, Mar 25, 2011
  3. Junio C HamanoMar 25, 2011
  4. Alex RiesenMar 25, 2011
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 25, 2011
  6. Alex RiesenMar 25, 2011
  7. Junio C HamanoMar 25, 2011
  8. Alex RiesenMar 26, 2011
  9. Jeff KingMar 26, 2011
  10. HOME must be set before calling git-init when creating test repositoriesAlex Riesen, Mar 26, 2011
  11. Jeff KingMar 26, 2011
  12. Alex RiesenMar 26, 2011
  13. HOME must be set before calling git-init when creating test repositoriesAlex Riesen, Mar 26, 2011
  14. Jeff KingMar 26, 2011

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