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

- From: SZEDER Gábor \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-06-16 02:19:26 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7681046
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7681045/t.md

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Quoting Junio C Hamano [ref]:

> Jeff King [ref] writes:
>
>> 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 [ref] wrote:
>>>> Eric Sunshine [ref] 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

And ea10b60c910e (Work around ash "alternate value" expansion bug,
2009-04-18) as well.

   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/116816

> Yikes, you're right.  Does anybody know if FreeBSD shell is still
> buggy?

git-submodule.sh contains a few offending constructs:

	git submodule--helper update-clone ${GIT_QUIET:+--quiet} \
		${wt_prefix:+--prefix "$wt_prefix"} \
		${prefix:+--recursive-prefix "$prefix"} \
		${update:+--update "$update"} \
		${reference:+--reference "$reference"} \
		${depth:+--depth "$depth"} \
		"$@" || echo "#unmatched"
	} | {

They were added recently in 48308681b072 (git submodule update: have
a dedicated helper for cloning, 2016-02-29), which is not in any
release yet, perhaps that's why noone complained yet.
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