Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > 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)? Perhaps. I wish our test-lint caught "VAR=VAL shellfunc", but it is rather hard to do so, I would imagine.