Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Pitfalls ahead! Thanks. I said "at least the latter" for this exact reason ;-). > PATH=... git rebase ... > > is OK, but > > PATH=... test_must_fail git rebase ... > > is not; the latter requires the subshell, otherwise the modified PATH > variable survives the command because test_must_fail is a shell > function. Yes, it's silly, but that's how it is. Or you could do test_must_fail env VAR=VAL git rebase ... which I am not particularly fond of, but seems to be used quite often.
