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[PATCH] t5801: properly test the test shell

From
Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date
Apr 25, 2013, 10:09 UTC
Message-ID
<ff7ccf22012f069ceca054d90aa0f72666cc11c2.1366884583.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net>

fc407f9 (Add new simplified git-remote-testgit, 2012-11-28) introduced a test which was meant to skip the test unless the test shell is bash. Unfortunately, it tests for the availability of bash only. But users can opt to use a different shell (using SHELL_PATH) for the tests even though bash is available.

At least for dash, 21610d8 (transport-helper: clarify pushing without refspecs, 2013-04-17) is the commit which actually introduces a test (pushing without refspec) which fails to fail even though it is supposed to. It uses the construct:

VAR=value function arguments
Make t5801 actually test whether the test shell is bash.

An even better alternative would be to make the test POSIX compliant, of course.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
---
 t/t5801-remote-helpers.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/t/t5801-remote-helpers.sh b/t/t5801-remote-helpers.sh
index ed962c4..c979863 100755
--- a/t/t5801-remote-helpers.sh
+++ b/t/t5801-remote-helpers.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ test_description='Test remote-helper import and export commands'
 . ./test-lib.sh
 . "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/lib-gpg.sh
 
-if ! type "${BASH-bash}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+if test $(basename "${SHELL_PATH}") != "bash"; then
 	skip_all='skipping remote-testgit tests, bash not available'
 	test_done
 fi
-- 
1.8.2.1.882.gefdb4b7
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