Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] t1500: avoid changing working directory outside of tests

> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 04:48:33PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> > Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
>> >> +                     git ${dir:+-C "$dir"} rev-parse --$o >actual &&
>> >
>> > This is kosher POSIX, but I vaguely recall some shells had trouble
>> > with the SP between -C and "$dir" in the past.  Let's see if anybody
>> > screams; hopefully I am misremembering or buggy shells died out.
>> 
>> I also am bothered by a vague recollection of some issue (possibly
>> involving the internal space and lack of quotes around the entire
>> ${...}), but couldn't remember nor find a reference to the specific
>> details. Perhaps someone reading the patch has a better memory than I.
>
> Probably:
>
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/265094