Re: [PATCH] describe: count the distance correctly when commit dates are skewed

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 1, 2026, 18:12 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq5wyg1kus.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20261101094653.NKAEk%taahol@utu.fi>

Tuomas Ahola <taahol@utu.fi> writes:

> Hmm, only in Bash---something I forgot to test.  This of course fails properly:
>
> 	$ make -C t/ SHELL=bash t6120-describe.sh

It is more like "we must not use anything that relies on test_when_finished in a subshell in any shell, and we wanted to detect such mistaken use of test_config and its friends, but that unfortunately was something we couldn't do portably". It would be great if you can make the check available to other shells ;-) but that would be a completely separate topic.

In any case, let's pick up this patch and move it forward.

Thanks, all.