On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 01:07:51PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Bash may take it happily but running test with dash reveals a breakage. > > This was not discovered for a long time as no tests after this test > depended on GIT_AUTHOR_NAME to be reverted correctly back to the > original value after this step is done. > > Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > > * We could enclose the setting and exporting inside a subshell and > do without the oGIT_AUTHOR_NAME temporary variable, but that > would interfere with the timestamp increments done by > test_commit, so I think doing it this way may be preferrable. Yeah, I agree that setting/unsetting is probably more sane for this case. Though... > diff --git a/t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh b/t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh > index 7e9f375a24..fd43443ff5 100755 > --- a/t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh > +++ b/t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh > @@ -280,8 +280,11 @@ test_expect_success 'retain authorship w/ conflicts' ' > git reset --hard twerp && > test_commit a conflict a conflict-a && > git reset --hard twerp && > - GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=AttributeMe \ > + oGIT_AUTHOR_NAME=$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME && > + GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=AttributeMe && > + export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME && > test_commit b conflict b conflict-b && > + GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=$oGIT_AUTHOR_NAME && ...would you want to use test_when_finished here (both for robustness, but also to make it more clear to a reader what's going on)? It's too bad test_commit does not take arbitrary options, as you could just use --author then, side-stepping the whole thing. -Peff