René Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> writes: > Dash bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dash/+bug/139097 > lets the shell erroneously perform field splitting on the expansion of a > command substitution during declaration of a local variable. It causes > the parallel-checkout tests to fail e.g. when running them with > /bin/dash on MacOS 11.4, where they error out like this: > > ./t2080-parallel-checkout-basics.sh: 33: local: 0: bad variable name > > That's because the output of wc -l contains leading spaces and the > returned number of lines is treated as another variable to declare, i.e. > as in "local workers= 0". > > Work around it by enclosing the command substitution in quotes. > > Helped-by: Matheus Tavares Bernardino <matheus.bernardino@xxxxxx> > Helped-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@xxxxxxxxx> > Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> > --- > Changes since v2: > - Use minimal fix. > - New commit message. Thanks. As I said, I do not necessarily think this is conceptually "minimal", but we use workers only once and without surrounding dq so it is easy to see that this also is correct. Will queue. > > t/lib-parallel-checkout.sh | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/t/lib-parallel-checkout.sh b/t/lib-parallel-checkout.sh > index 21f5759732..83b279a846 100644 > --- a/t/lib-parallel-checkout.sh > +++ b/t/lib-parallel-checkout.sh > @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ test_checkout_workers () { > rm -f "$trace_file" && > GIT_TRACE2="$(pwd)/$trace_file" "$@" 2>&8 && > > - local workers=$(grep "child_start\[..*\] git checkout--worker" "$trace_file" | wc -l) && > + local workers="$(grep "child_start\[..*\] git checkout--worker" "$trace_file" | wc -l)" && > test $workers -eq $expected_workers && > rm "$trace_file" > } 8>&2 2>&4 > -- > 2.31.1
