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From: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
To: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] parallel-checkout: avoid dash local bug in tests
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2021 20:11:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <472c1411-fcf8-862b-cef9-52c2c994914b@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eb4bcd4c-e6d2-cbeb-8951-cf22b9d3d5fe@web.de>

The parallel checkout tests fail when run with /bin/dash on MacOS 11.4,
reporting the following error:

   ./t2080-parallel-checkout-basics.sh: 33: local: 0: bad variable name

That's because wc's output contains leading spaces and this version of
dash erroneously expands the variable declaration as "local workers= 0",
i.e. it tries to set the "workers" variable to the empty string and also
declare a variable named "0", which not a valid name.  This is a known
dash bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dash/+bug/139097).

Work around it by passing the command output directly to test instead of
storing it in a variable first.  While at it, let grep count the number
of lines instead of piping its output to wc, which is a bit shorter and
more efficient.

Helped-by: Matheus Tavares Bernardino <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
---
Changes since v1:
- Explain the root cause.
- Get rid of the local variable "workers".
- Adjust title accordingly.
- Still use grep -c, though.
- Remove input redirection.

 t/lib-parallel-checkout.sh | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/t/lib-parallel-checkout.sh b/t/lib-parallel-checkout.sh
index 21f5759732..66350d5207 100644
--- a/t/lib-parallel-checkout.sh
+++ b/t/lib-parallel-checkout.sh
@@ -27,8 +27,7 @@ test_checkout_workers () {
 	rm -f "$trace_file" &&
 	GIT_TRACE2="$(pwd)/$trace_file" "$@" 2>&8 &&

-	local workers=$(grep "child_start\[..*\] git checkout--worker" "$trace_file" | wc -l) &&
-	test $workers -eq $expected_workers &&
+	test $(grep -c "child_start\[..*\] git checkout--worker" "$trace_file") -eq $expected_workers &&
 	rm "$trace_file"
 } 8>&2 2>&4

--
2.31.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-05 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-05 12:27 [PATCH] parallel-checkout: use grep -c to count workers in tests René Scharfe
2021-06-05 14:31 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2021-06-05 15:20   ` René Scharfe
2021-06-05 15:30     ` René Scharfe
2021-06-05 18:11 ` René Scharfe [this message]
2021-06-05 19:09   ` [PATCH v2] parallel-checkout: avoid dash local bug " SZEDER Gábor
2021-06-06  1:01     ` René Scharfe
2021-06-05 19:56   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-05 22:17     ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2021-06-05 22:21       ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2021-06-06  1:01     ` René Scharfe
2021-06-06  1:28       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-06-06  1:01   ` [PATCH v3] " René Scharfe
2021-06-06  1:41     ` Junio C Hamano

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