Re: [PATCH 29/29] t/test-lib: teach --chain-lint to detect broken &&-chains in subshells

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 26, 2018, 21:09 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqy3f1i7bi.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180626201708.GA2341@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> One way this series might be worse in practice is that we tend not to
> change process state too much outside of the subshells.
> ...
> Whereas once you start collapsing subshells into the main logic chain,
> there's a very high chance that the subshell is doing a "cd", since
> that's typically the main reason for the subshell in the first place.

Exactly. I should have mentioned this when I responded to save a round-trip.

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