Re: New GSoC microproject ideas

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On 03/12/2014 08:04 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Here is another, as I seem to have managed to kill another one ;-)
> 
> -- >8 --
> 
> "VAR=VAL command" is sufficient to run 'command' with environment
> variable VAR set to value VAL without affecting the environment of
> the shell itself, but we cannot do the same with a shell function
> (most notably, "test_must_fail"); we have subshell invocations with
> multiple lines like this:
> 
> 	... &&
> 	(
>         	VAR=VAL &&
>                 export VAR &&
>                 test_must_fail git command
> 	) &&
>         ...
> 
> but that could be expressed as
> 
> 	... &&
>         test_must_fail env VAR=VAL git comand &&
> 	...
> 
> Find and shorten such constructs in existing test scripts.

Thanks; I just added it.

Michael

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