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Re: [PATCH 1/4] t5510: make confusing config cleanup more explicit

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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date
Aug 19, 2025, 20:16 UTC
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On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM Eric Sunshine <ericsunshine@charter.net> wrote:
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> On 8/19/25 3:24 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> > -     test_when_finished "git config unset remote.origin.followRemoteHEAD" &&
> > +     test_when_finished "git -C \"$D/two\" config unset remote.origin.followRemoteHEAD" &&
>
> For what it's worth, I have an unsent patch from a much larger unsent
> series which cleans up the t5510 messiness differently. (The below patch
> is probably whitespace damaged by the MUA.)

For the sake of completeness regarding the "much larger unsent series": That series modifies `chainlint` to detect `cd` invocations outside of a subshell and fixes the very many instances it discovered. The series ended up consisting of 41 patches.

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Message 5 of 22 in “dangling symrefs and fetchRemoteHEAD=create”
  1. 0/4 dangling symrefs and fetchRemoteHEAD=createJeff King, Aug 19, 2025
  2. Jeff KingAug 19, 2025
  3. 1/4 t5510: make confusing config cleanup more explicitJeff King, Aug 19, 2025
  4. Eric SunshineAug 19, 2025
  5. Eric SunshineAug 19, 2025
  6. Jeff KingAug 19, 2025
  7. 2/4 t5510: stop changing top-level working directoryJeff King, Aug 19, 2025
  8. 3/4 t5510: prefer "git -C" to subshell for followRemoteHEAD testsJeff King, Aug 19, 2025
  9. SZEDER GáborAug 24, 2025
  10. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2025
  11. Jeff KingAug 26, 2025
  12. Junio C HamanoAug 26, 2025
  13. 4/4 refs: do not clobber dangling symrefsJeff King, Aug 19, 2025
  14. Patrick SteinhardtAug 20, 2025
  15. Jeff KingAug 20, 2025
  16. Toon ClaesSep 22, 2025
  17. Junio C HamanoSep 22, 2025
  18. Jeff KingSep 22, 2025
  19. Junio C HamanoSep 22, 2025
  20. Jeff KingSep 22, 2025
  21. Toon ClaesSep 23, 2025
  22. Jeff KingSep 23, 2025

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