Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] ci: add support for GitLab CI

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 1, 2023, 03:33 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqil6mw3ja.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20231031193629.GB875658@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> So it's possible that avoiding "export var=val" is mostly superstition,

Thanks for digging up the old thread. I would not be surprised if it was already superstition back in the days.

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>   2. We won't really know if there is a odd-ball shell that rejects it
>      unless we make a change and wait for a while to see if anybody
>      screams. The existing ones in ci/ show that it is not a problem for
>      the platforms where we run CI, but I suspect the scripts in t/ see
>      a wider audience.

We could start with a single weather balloon use in t/ somewhere to see if anybody screams. It would be a good place to start if we want to get rid of this particular superstition.

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