Jonathan del Strother <maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 17 Oct 2007, at 12:32, Johannes Sixt wrote: > >> Jonathan del Strother schrieb: >>> --- a/t/lib-git-svn.sh >>> +++ b/t/lib-git-svn.sh >>> @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ perl -w -e " >>> use SVN::Core; >>> use SVN::Repos; >>> \$SVN::Core::VERSION gt '1.1.0' or exit(42); >>> -system(qw/svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs/, '$svnrepo') == 0 or >>> exit(41); >>> +system(qw/svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs/, \"$svnrepo\") == 0 or >>> exit(41); >> >> Here you have to work harder: The reason is that this is part of a >> perl expression (as opposed to an eval'd string), which does not >> have access to $svnrepo of the shell by which it is invoked. The >> original version failed if there were single-quotes in $svnrepo, the >> new version fails if it contains double-quotes. > ... >> >> May I recommend that you run the test suite in a directory named >> like this: >> >> $ mkdir \"\ \$GIT_DIR\ \' >> $ ls >> " $GIT_DIR ' > > > Eww. I'm struggling a bit with paths this perverse, actually. > > For instance, git_editor in git-sh-setup expects the editor path to be > pre-quoted. So in t3404, you need to produce escaped double quotes & > dollar signs, resulting in unpleasantness like this : > > VISUAL="`pwd`/fake-editor.sh" > VISUAL=${VISUAL//\"/\\\"} > VISUAL=${VISUAL//$/\\\$} > VISUAL=\"$VISUAL\" > export VISUAL EDITORPWD="`pwd`" VISUAL='$EDITORPWD/fake-editor.sh' export EDITORPWD VISUAL -- David Kastrup - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html