From: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 19:19:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] t0033-safe-directory: check when 'safe.directory' is ignored
Message-ID: <b6deba3f-9019-fb6f-7bb3-cc2f647dcff6@github.com>
In-Reply-To: <20220429190625.GA1626@szeder.dev>

On 4/29/2022 3:06 PM, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 10:57:58AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com> writes:
>>> test_config would do the same, right? I think it automatically
>>> does the test_when_finished for us.
>>
>> I thought it (specifically, anything depends on test_when_finished)
>> has trouble working well from inside a subprocess?
> 
> Yeah, test_config doesn't work in a subshell, because modifying
> the variable holding the cleanup commands won't be visible after
> leaving the subshell, and the protection added in 0968f12a99
> (test-lib-functions: detect test_when_finished in subshell,
> 2015-09-05) will kick in.  And we do need a subshell to set the
> config, because without unsetting GIT_TEST_ASSUME_DIFFERENT_OWNER 'git
> config' would refuse to touch the config file.

Ah yes, of course.
 
> I think something like
> 
>   test_when_finished "(
>         unset GIT_TEST_ASSUME_DIFFERENT_USER &&
>         git config --unset safe.directory
>         )"
> 
> would work, though.

Would it be simpler to use this?

	GIT_TEST_ASSUME_DIFFERENT_USER=0 git config --unset safe.directory

Thanks,
-Stolee