From: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>,
hsed@unimetic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tests: avoid syntax triggering old dash bug
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 22:48:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190213214844.GI1622@szeder.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190213115951.12096-1-avarab@gmail.com>
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 12:59:51PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> Avoid a bug in dash that's been fixed ever since its
> ec2c84d ("[PARSER] Fix clobbering of checkkwd", 2011-03-15)[1] first
> released with dash v0.5.7 in July 2011. This failing test was
> introduced in 5f9674243d ("config: add --expiry-date", 2017-11-18).
>
> This fixes 1/2 tests failing on Debian Lenny & Squeeze. The other
Do I understand this "1/2" right? There are two tests failing on
Lenny and Squeeze, and this fixes one of those bugs?
> failure is due to 1b42f45255 ("git-svn: apply "svn.pathnameencoding"
> before URL encoding", 2016-02-09).
>
> The dash bug is triggered by this test because the heredoc contains a
> command embedded in "$()" with a "{}" block coming right after
> it. Refactoring the "$()" to e.g. be a variable that was set earlier
> will also work around it, but let's instead break up the "EOF" and the
> "{}".
>
> An earlier version of this patch[2] mitigated the issue by breaking
> the "$()" out of the "{}" block, that worked, but just because it
> broke up the "EOF" and "{}" block. Putting e.g. "echo &&" between the
> two would also work.
>
> 1. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dash/dash.git/
Could you please link directly to the commit fixing that issue?
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dash/dash.git/commit/?id=ec2c84d3c4dba4b74440d72bdd1de416a9acd2a9
> 2. https://public-inbox.org/git/20181127164253.9832-1-avarab@gmail.com/
>
> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-13 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-27 16:42 [PATCH] tests: avoid syntax triggering old dash bug Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-27 19:16 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-11-27 19:37 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-28 4:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-13 11:59 ` [PATCH v2] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-02-13 21:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-13 21:48 ` SZEDER Gábor [this message]
2019-02-14 9:51 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-28 1:47 ` [PATCH] " brian m. carlson
2018-11-28 7:06 ` Torsten Bögershausen
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