From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:01:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HOME must be set before calling git-init when creating test repositories
Message-ID: <AANLkTimQzPVOWCUx1hr+DEmRfdFB8=UeY_xCaxzVSwFy@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vsjub53j2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 21:49, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Otherwise the created test repositories will be affected by users ~/.gitconfig.
>> For example, setting core.logAllrefupdates in users config will make all
>> calls to "git config --unset core.logAllrefupdates" fail which will break
>> the first test which uses the statement and expects it to succeed.
>
> 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?