Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 08:04:13PM +0100, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > >> So to prevent nested prereqs from interfering with each other let's >> evaluate each prereq in its own dedicated directory by appending the >> prereq's name to the directory name, e.g. 'prereq-test-dir-SYMLINKS'. >> In the test we check not only that the prereq test dir is still there, >> but also that the inner prereq can't mess with the outer prereq's >> files. > > That sounds reasonable. I do wonder, though, whether simply creating the > prereq directory in the _current_ directory would be sufficient. Then > you'd get prereq-test-dir/prereq-test-dir for a nested invocation. But > the prereqs aren't supposed to care about which specific directory > they're in. True. That does sound conceptually simpler. As we've already seen the patch, I do not mind too deeply either way, though. Thanks.
