# [PATCH] Set $HOME for selftests

1 messages from 2006-10-24 to 2006-10-24. Participants: Gerrit Pape.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/43738

## Gerrit Pape, 2006-10-24 20:00

Subject: [PATCH] Set $HOME for selftests
Message-ID: <20061024200037.17087.qmail@d8dab9a84b4add.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20061024200037.17087.qmail%40d8dab9a84b4add.315fe32.mid.smarden.org

```
Set HOME environment variable to test trash directory and export for
selftests.  This fixes the git-svn selftests with nonexistent or not
readable home, as found in at least one automated build system:

 http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=git-core&ver=1%3A1.4.2.3-2&arch=alpha&stamp=1161537466&file=log

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>

---
 t/test-lib.sh |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index 2488e6e..07cb706 100755
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -207,7 +207,8 @@ # Test the binaries we have just built. 
 # t/ subdirectory and are run in trash subdirectory.
 PATH=$(pwd)/..:$PATH
 GIT_EXEC_PATH=$(pwd)/..
-export PATH GIT_EXEC_PATH
+HOME=$(pwd)/trash
+export PATH GIT_EXEC_PATH HOME
 
 # Similarly use ../compat/subprocess.py if our python does not
 # have subprocess.py on its own.
-- 
1.4.2.3

```