Otherwise, on environments where these variables and set, an assignment to one of these variables will cause the variable being implicitly exported. For example: $ XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/2000 bash $ XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/tmp/whatever # it should not be exported! $ bash $ echo $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR /tmp/whatever # instead of empty [1] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec /basedir-spec-latest.html Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hui Yiqun <huiyiqun@xxxxxxxxx> --- t/test-lib.sh | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh index 0b47eb6..60a837a 100644 --- a/t/test-lib.sh +++ b/t/test-lib.sh @@ -93,7 +93,17 @@ unset VISUAL EMAIL LANGUAGE COLUMNS $("$PERL_PATH" -e ' my @vars = grep(/^GIT_/ && !/^GIT_($ok)/o, @env); print join("\n", @vars); ') +# Unset all environment variables defined in xdg base dir spec[1] +# to make sure that the test are running with a known state. +# +# [1] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec +# /basedir-spec-latest.html +unset XDG_DATA_HOME unset XDG_CONFIG_HOME +unset XDG_DATA_DIRS +unset XDG_CONFIG_DIRS +unset XDG_CACHE_HOME +unset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR unset GITPERLLIB GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=author@xxxxxxxxxxx GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='A U Thor' -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html