From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Quoting paths in tests
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:15:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <864pgpfyrd.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6E65762D-FBC4-4A7C-97A9-20F6744E25DE@steelskies.com
Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com> writes:
> 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=\"$VISUAL\"
> export VISUAL
EDITORPWD="`pwd`"
VISUAL='$EDITORPWD/fake-editor.sh'
export EDITORPWD VISUAL
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-17 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-10 21:13 [PATCH] Fixing path quoting issues Jonathan del Strother
2007-10-11 6:19 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-10-11 6:47 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-11 7:10 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-10-11 7:30 ` Jonathan del Strother
2007-10-11 7:41 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-10-11 20:53 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-11 21:22 ` Jonathan del Strother
2007-10-11 21:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-11 21:40 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-12 6:43 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-10-12 11:17 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-12 11:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-12 12:20 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-12 12:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-12 13:14 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-13 18:12 ` Jonathan del Strother
2007-10-13 22:36 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-15 13:13 ` Jonathan del Strother
2007-10-15 13:13 ` [PATCH 1/3] Fixing path quoting in git-rebase Jonathan del Strother
2007-10-15 13:39 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-10-17 9:14 ` Jonathan del Strother
2007-10-17 9:31 ` [PATCH] Quoting paths, take 3 Jonathan del Strother
2007-10-17 9:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] Fixing path quoting in git-rebase Jonathan del Strother
2007-10-17 9:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] Quoting paths in tests Jonathan del Strother
2007-10-17 11:32 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-10-17 17:07 ` Jonathan del Strother
2007-10-17 17:15 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-10-17 20:03 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-18 6:08 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-10-24 13:07 ` Jonathan del Strother
2007-10-17 10:41 ` [PATCH 1/2] Fixing path quoting in git-rebase Johannes Sixt
2007-10-15 13:13 ` [PATCH 2/3] Quoting paths in tests Jonathan del Strother
2007-10-15 13:47 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-10-15 14:00 ` Jonathan del Strother
2007-10-15 14:17 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-10-15 14:03 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-15 13:13 ` [PATCH 3/3] Fix apostrophe quoting " Jonathan del Strother
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