On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 01:06:58PM -0700, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 03:55:23PM -0400, Taylor Blau wrote: > > > > > > > > GIT_TEST_ASSUME_DIFFERENT_USER=0 git config --unset safe.directory > > > > > > Oh, wow. This is so obvious, no wonder it didn't occur to me :) > > > > Don't we consider this one-shot environment variable to be sticky on > > some shells (i.e., that it persists beyond just the "git config" > > invocation here)? > > do you have an example of such a shell?, I would assume that since the > mechanism to implement these would be similar to local and we already > require local for running our tests, that shouldn't be an issue (at > least in the test suite), right? > > any such variables should be only set as part of the environment used > by the posix shell before it call execve to invoke the next command IMHO. This is completely my mistake, that stickiness exists only when invoking shell _functions_, not other commands (like "git"). I have gotten so used to looking for the former, that I didn't read carefully enough to realize that we are in the latter situation instead. > Carlo Thanks, Taylor
