On both AIX 7200-00-01-1543 and FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p2 the "${var:-"str"}" syntax means something different than what it does under the bash or dash shells. Both will consider the start of the new unescaped quotes to be a new argument to test_expect_success, resulting in the following error: error: bug in the test script: 'git diff-tree initial # magic is (not' does not look like a prereq Fix this by removing the redundant quotes. There's no need for them, and the resulting code works under all the aforementioned shells. This fixes a regression in c2f1d3989 ("t4013: test new output from diff --abbrev --raw", 2017-12-03) first released with Git v2.16.0. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> --- t/t4013-diff-various.sh | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/t/t4013-diff-various.sh b/t/t4013-diff-various.sh index f8d853595b..73f7038253 100755 --- a/t/t4013-diff-various.sh +++ b/t/t4013-diff-various.sh @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ do expect="$TEST_DIRECTORY/t4013/diff.$test" actual="$pfx-diff.$test" - test_expect_success "git $cmd # magic is ${magic:-"(not used)"}" ' + test_expect_success "git $cmd # magic is ${magic:-(not used)}" ' { echo "$ git $cmd" case "$magic" in -- 2.19.0.rc0.228.g281dcd1b4d0