From: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 01:27:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t1402: work around shell quoting issue on NetBSD
Message-ID: <rmihamrjgcj.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com>
In-Reply-To: <50EC8025.8000707@lsrfire.ath.cx>


René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:

> invalid_ref() constructs a test case description using its last argument,
> but the shell seems to split it up into two pieces if it contains a
> space.  Minimal test case:

This is indeed a bug in NetBSD's shell, which I reported after finding
this test case problem, and I think someone is working on a fix.  But
because git does not intend to be a shell torture test, if it's possible
to avoid bugs in a reasonable way, I think it's nice to do so.