From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2026 18:12:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] describe: count the distance correctly when commit dates are skewed
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.