On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 03:05:45PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Actually, we don't need to do this, as of 94221d2 (t: use perl instead
> > of "$PERL_PATH" where applicable, 2013-10-28). If only the author of
> > that commit were here to correct me...
>
> Yuck. I forgot all about that, too.
>
> I wonder if that commit (actually the one before it) invites subtle
> bugs by tempting us to say
>
> sane_unset VAR &&
> VAR=VAL perl -e 0 &&
> test "${VAR+isset}" != "isset"
I dunno. A more subtle case is:
write_script foo <<-\EOF
perl ...
EOF
which uses the real "perl" and not the function. So it's not as airtight
as I would like, but I think it may be a net win, as the common case can
just use "perl".
Hmph. It seems like I raised both of those concerns initially:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/236879
We can revisit it if you want. I think the only options besides leaving
it or reverting it would be to put "perl" into bin-wrappers as a wrapper
script. That's fine for the tests, but I suspect it might annoy people
who use bin-wrappers to run git straight out of the build directory
without installing.
> > -- >8 --
> > Subject: t/lib-terminal: make TTY a lazy prerequisite
> [...]
>
> Thanks.
By the way, I checked for other cases that could use the same treatment
by grepping for test_expect_* in t/lib-*.sh. Most of them are inside
functions, so presumably the scripts call them at the appropriate time.
The exceptions are:
1. lib-read-tree-m-3way.sh; this one has a whole battery of tests
that sourced into t1000 and t4002. It could be split into functions
and modernized, but it's probably not worth the effort. It's not
causing ordering problems, and it's not likely to get used
elsewhere.
2. lib-pager.sh; this one is weird, as it is really about setting the
"$less" variable to git's default pager. And then the prereq is
really just checking that said pager is syntactically simple, I
think, so we can override it by writing to a file with the same
name. At least that's my impression; frankly I found it a bit
confusing to read.
Converting it to a lazy prereq wouldn't work because we care about
its side effect of setting the "less" variable. There are no
ordering issues with it currently, so I'm inclined to leave it.
-Peff
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