Re: [PATCH] HOME must be set before calling git-init when creating test repositories

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 22:30, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 21:49, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Doesn't this change the location of HOME used during the test as well?
>>>
>>> As long as the test only includes test-lib.sh only once - it doesn't.
>>> Why? Or rather, how?
>>
>> I thought you moved HOME=$(pwd) across "cd somewhere-else". ÂDoesn't it
>> change what is returned from pwd?
>>
>
> Oh, it does. That's why the second patch (prefixed "[PATCH, fixed]").
> It makes HOME to be "$(pwd)/somewhere-else", or precisely:
>
>   HOME="$(pwd)"/"$test"
>   export HOME

What happens to people who has non-empty "$root", iow, their $test begins
with '/'?

I am not saying that having HOME at t/ directory instead of t/trash-*/
directory would necessarily break things (I don't know).  I am just
pointing out that the patch changes behaviour.


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