Re: [PATCH] t/test-lib.sh: do not trust $SHELL

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Hi,

Jeff King wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 02:22:46AM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>
>> Replace $SHELL with an explicit `/bin/sh`, as some shells do not
>> support all the features used in the script.  For example, ZSH does
>> not respect IFS, which is used in line 478.
>
> I don't think that is the right thing to do. The point of SHELL is to
> point at a bourne-compatible shell. On some systems, the main reason to
> set it is that /bin/sh is _broken_, and we are trying to avoid it.

But you're only avoiding it in the --tee/ --va* codepath.  In the
normal codepath, you're stuck with /bin/sh anyway.

> A bigger question is: why are you setting SHELL=zsh in the first place?

I use ZSH as my primary shell, so SHELL is set to zsh when I run
tests.  How can we trust $SHELL to be a bourne-compatible shell?

Ram
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