Re: [PATCH 2/2] Quoting paths in tests

[Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com>]

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


And I'm struggling to come up with neat ways of rewriting things like,  
eg, this bit from t5500 -
test_expect_success "clone shallow" "git-clone --depth 2 \"file:// 
`pwd`/.\" shallow"
- to handle paths like that properly.


Suggestions?

Jon