On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 2:47 AM Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> wrote: > Older versions of the Dash shell fail to parse `local var=val` > assignments in some cases when `val` is unquoted. Such failures can be > observed e.g. with Ubuntu 20.04 and older, which has a Dash version that > still has this bug. > > Such an assignment has been introduced in t0610. The issue wasn't > detected for a while because this test used to only run when the > GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT environment variable was set to "refatble". > We have dropped that requirement now though, meaning that it runs > unconditionally, inclluding on jobs which use such older versions of > Ubuntu. s/refatble/reftable/ s/inclluding/including/ > We have worked around such issues in the past, e.g. in ebee5580ca > (parallel-checkout: avoid dash local bug in tests, 2021-06-06), by > quoting the `val` side. Apply the same fix to t0610. > > Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx>
