From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] t7450: test verify_path() handling of gitmodules
Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 15:39:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YJBRVQ7+CUkYf5Us@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cQFUUncb17MFAvJAh2KFxK_OCq_6AoOwPViYyQJUDVJNg@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 03:03:56PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 2:55 PM Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 11:42 AM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > > + tree=$(git -C symlink mktree <symlink/bad-tree)
> >
> > `tree` is an unusually generic name for this now-global variable. One
> > can easily imagine it being re-used by some unrelated test arbitrarily
> > inserted into this script, thus potentially breaking the following
> > tests which depend upon it. I wonder if a name such as `BAD_TREE`
> > would be more appropriate.
>
> I see that all `$tree` references get encapsulated into a shell
> function by the next patch, so perhaps the generic name `tree` isn't a
> big deal after all.
Yeah. I'd like to think it is not that big a deal between even just
adjacent tests, because anybody adding tests in the middle of a script
would take care not to split related ones. But that may be too
optimistic. ;)
At any rate, it seems OK to assume the function will all be used
together.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-03 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-01 15:40 [PATCH 0/9] leftover bits from symlinked gitattributes, etc topics Jeff King
2021-05-01 15:41 ` [PATCH 1/9] t7415: remove out-dated comment about translation Jeff King
2021-05-03 9:46 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-03 20:29 ` Jeff King
2021-05-01 15:41 ` [PATCH 2/9] fsck_tree(): fix shadowed variable Jeff King
2021-05-03 11:15 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-03 20:13 ` Jeff King
2021-05-04 10:10 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-01 15:41 ` [PATCH 3/9] fsck_tree(): wrap some long lines Jeff King
2021-05-03 11:22 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-03 20:23 ` Jeff King
2021-05-01 15:42 ` [PATCH 4/9] t7415: rename to expand scope Jeff King
2021-05-01 15:42 ` [PATCH 5/9] t7450: test verify_path() handling of gitmodules Jeff King
2021-05-01 18:55 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-05-01 19:03 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-05-03 19:39 ` Jeff King [this message]
2021-05-03 10:12 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-03 20:32 ` Jeff King
2021-05-01 15:42 ` [PATCH 6/9] t7450: test .gitmodules symlink matching against obscured names Jeff King
2021-05-01 15:42 ` [PATCH 7/9] t0060: test ntfs/hfs-obscured dotfiles Jeff King
2021-05-01 15:43 ` [PATCH 8/9] fsck: warn about symlinked dotfiles we'll open with O_NOFOLLOW Jeff King
2021-05-01 15:43 ` [PATCH 9/9] docs: document symlink restrictions for dot-files Jeff King
2021-05-01 19:16 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-05-03 20:33 ` Jeff King
2021-05-03 5:36 ` [PATCH 0/9] leftover bits from symlinked gitattributes, etc topics Junio C Hamano
2021-05-03 20:42 ` [PATCH v2 " Jeff King
2021-05-03 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] t7415: remove out-dated comment about translation Jeff King
2021-05-03 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] fsck_tree(): fix shadowed variable Jeff King
2021-05-03 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] fsck_tree(): wrap some long lines Jeff King
2021-05-03 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] t7415: rename to expand scope Jeff King
2021-05-03 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] t7450: test verify_path() handling of gitmodules Jeff King
2021-05-03 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] t7450: test .gitmodules symlink matching against obscured names Jeff King
2021-05-03 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] t0060: test ntfs/hfs-obscured dotfiles Jeff King
2021-05-03 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] fsck: warn about symlinked dotfiles we'll open with O_NOFOLLOW Jeff King
2021-05-03 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] docs: document symlink restrictions for dot-files Jeff King
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