Re: [PATCH 1/2] t1404: add a bunch of tests of D/F conflicts

[Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>]

On 10/25/2017 10:03 AM, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> On 10/24/2017 09:46 PM, Jeff King wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 12:19:26PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>>>> diff --git a/t/t1404-update-ref-errors.sh b/t/t1404-update-ref-errors.sh
>>>> @@ -34,6 +34,86 @@ test_update_rejected () {
>>>> +# Test adding and deleting D/F-conflicting references in a single
>>>> +# transaction.
>>>> +df_test() {
>>>> +       local prefix="$1"
>>>> +       shift
>>>> +       local pack=:
>>>
>>> Isn't "local" a Bash-ism we want to keep out of the test scripts?
>>
>> Yeah. It's supported by dash and many other shells, but we do try to
>> avoid it[1]. I think in this case we could just drop it (but keep
>> setting the "local foo" ones to empty with "foo=".
> [...]
> 
> But I agree that this bug fix is not the correct occasion to change
> policy on something like this, so I'll reroll without "local".

Oh, I see Junio has already made this fix in the version that he picked
up, so I won't bother rerolling.

Michael