Re: [PATCH] test-lib: fix "$remove_trash" regression and match_pattern_list() bugs

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 16, 2021, 09:22 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqeed2p3jx.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <YMm4F2uKZ4Dv3C4p@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> ... Still, I kind of like the "set -f" version because it doesn't need
> the extra directory which could cause problems with "ls-files -o", etc,
> as you mentioned. You could also create the empty directory on the fly,
> though if "set -f" works portably, that seems less complicated to me.

FWIW, I share that.

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