From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:51:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HOME must be set before calling git-init when creating test repositories
Message-ID: <AANLkTikO4=TtFtpsQ_JtmGKqQ1NzgTuo7e8cdaQca+T7@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 22:30, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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