In shell code like:
test -z $foo
test -n $foo
that does not quote its arguments, it's easy to think that
it is actually looking at the contents of $foo in each case.
But if $foo is empty, then "test" does not see any argument
at all! The results are quite subtle.
POSIX specifies that test's behavior depends on the number
of arguments it sees, and if $foo is empty, it sees only
one. The behavior in this case is:
1 argument: Exit true (0) if $1 is not null; otherwise,
exit false.
So in the "-z $foo" case, if $foo is empty, then we check
that "-z" is non-null, and it returns success. Which happens
to match what we expected. But for "-n $foo", if $foo is
empty, we'll see that "-n" is non-null and still return
success. That's the opposite of what we intended!
Furthermore, if $foo contains whitespace, we'll end up with
more than 2 arguments. The results in this case are
generally unspecified (unless the first part of $foo happens
to be a valid binary operator, in which case the results are
specified but certainly not what we intended).
And on top of this, even though "test -z $foo" _should_ work
for the empty case, some older shells (reportedly ksh88)
complain about the missing argument.
So let's make sure we consistently quote our variable
arguments to "test". After this patch, the results of:
git grep 'test -[zn] [^"]'
are empty.
Reported-by: Armin Kunaschik <megabreit@googlemail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The main goal here was to avoid double-quotes for
surrounding the test snippet, since it makes the code hard
to read (and to grep for common problems).
But while we're here, we can fix a few other things:
- use test_path_* helpers, which are more robust and give
better error messages
- only "cd" inside a subshell, which leaves the
environment pristine if further tests are added
- consistently quote shell arguments. These aren't wrong
if we assume find-rev output doesn't have any
whitespace, but it doesn't hurt to be careful.
- replace the old-style 'test x$foo = x' with 'test -z
"$foo"'. Besides the quoting fix, this is the form we
generally use in our test suite.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
One of the test snippets in t9107 is enclosed in double
quotes, but then uses single quotes to surround an
interpolated variable inside the snippet, like:
test_expect_success '...' "
test -n '$head'
"
This happens to work because the variable is interpolated
_before_ the snippet is run, and the result is eval'd. So as
long as the variable does not contain any single quotes, the
two are equivalent. And it doesn't, as we know it is a sha1
from rev-parse above. But this construct is unnecessarily
confusing.
But we can go a step further in cleaning up. The test is
really checking that a particular ref has a value. Rather
than checking if rev-parse produced output, we can just move
rev-parse into the test itself, and rely on the exit code
from --verify. Nobody else cares about the $head variable at
all.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a test runs a loop, it cannot rely on the usual
&&-chaining to propagate a failure inside the loop; it needs
to break out with a failure signal. However, unless you are
in a subshell, doing so with "exit 1" will exit the entire
test script, not just the test snippet we are in (and cause
the harness to complain that test_done was never reached).
So the fundamental point of this patch is s/exit/return/.
But while we're there, let's fix a number of style and
readability issues:
- snippets in double-quotes need an extra layer of quoting
for their meta-characters; let's avoid that by using
single quotes
- accumulating loop output by appending to a file in each
iteration is brittle, as it can be affected by content
left in the file by earlier tests. Instead, it's better
to redirect stdout for the whole loop, so we know the
output only comes from that loop.
- using "test -z" to check that diff output is empty is
overly verbose; we can just ask diff to use --exit-code.
- we can factor out long lists of refs to make it more
obvious we're using the same ones in each loop
- subshells are unnecessary when ending an &&-chain with
"|| return 1"
- minor style fixups like space-after-redirection, and
"do" and "done" on their own lines
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A few tests here use double-quotes around the snippets of
shell code to run the tests. None of these tests wants to do
any interpolation at all, and it just leads to an extra
layer of quoting around all double-quotes and dollar signs
inside the snippet. Let's switch to single quotes, like
most other test scripts.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These variables were added in 16805d3 (t/t91XX-svn: start
removing use of "git-" from these tests, 2008-09-08) so that
running:
git grep git-
would return fewer hits. At the time, we were transitioning
away from the use of the "dashed" git-foo form.
That transition has been over for years, and grepping for
"git-" in the test suite yields thousands of hits anyway
(all presumably false positives).
With their original purpose gone, these variables serve only
to obfuscate the tests. Let's get rid of them.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git commit-tree" plumbing command required the user to always sign
its result when the user sets the commit.gpgsign configuration
variable, which was an ancient mistake. Rework "git rebase" that
relied on this mistake so that it reads commit.gpgsign and pass (or
not pass) the -S option to "git commit-tree" to keep the end-user
expectation the same, while teaching "git commit-tree" to ignore
the configuration variable. This will stop requiring the users to
sign commit objects used internally as an implementation detail of
"git stash".
* jc/commit-tree-ignore-commit-gpgsign:
commit-tree: do not pay attention to commit.gpgsign
Some multi-byte encoding can have a backslash byte as a later part
of one letter, which would confuse "highlight" filter used in
gitweb.
* sk/gitweb-highlight-encoding:
gitweb: apply fallback encoding before highlight
Recent update to Git LFS broke "git p4" by changing the output from
its "lfs pointer" subcommand.
* ls/p4-lfs:
git-p4: fix Git LFS pointer parsing
travis-ci: express Linux/OS X dependency versions more clearly
travis-ci: update Git-LFS and P4 to the latest version
"git submodule" reports the paths of submodules the command
recurses into, but this was incorrect when the command was not run
from the root level of the superproject.
* sb/submodule-path-misc-bugs:
t7407: make expectation as clear as possible
submodule update: test recursive path reporting from subdirectory
submodule update: align reporting path for custom command execution
submodule status: correct path handling in recursive submodules
submodule update --init: correct path handling in recursive submodules
submodule foreach: correct path display in recursive submodules
Upcoming OpenSSL 1.1.0 will break compilation b updating a few APIs
we use in imap-send, which has been adjusted for the change.
* ky/imap-send-openssl-1.1.0:
configure: remove checking for HMAC_CTX_cleanup
imap-send: avoid deprecated TLSv1_method()
imap-send: check NULL return of SSL_CTX_new()
imap-send: use HMAC() function provided by OpenSSL
Minor code clean-up.
* cc/apply:
builtin/apply: free patch when parse_chunk() fails
builtin/apply: handle parse_binary() failure
apply: remove unused call to free() in gitdiff_{old,new}name()
builtin/apply: get rid of useless 'name' variable
Patch output from "git diff" and friends has been tweaked to be
more readable by using a blank line as a strong hint that the
contents before and after it belong to a logically separate unit.
* jk/diff-compact-heuristic:
diff: undocument the compaction heuristic knobs for experimentation
xdiff: implement empty line chunk heuristic
xdiff: add recs_match helper function
Move from unsigned char[20] to struct object_id continues.
* bc/object-id:
match-trees: convert several leaf functions to use struct object_id
tree-walk: convert tree_entry_extract() to use struct object_id
struct name_entry: use struct object_id instead of unsigned char sha1[20]
match-trees: convert shift_tree() and shift_tree_by() to use object_id
test-match-trees: convert to use struct object_id
sha1-name: introduce a get_oid() function
"git rebase -m" could be asked to rebase an entire branch starting
from the root, but failed by assuming that there always is a parent
commit to the first commit on the branch.
* bw/rebase-merge-entire-branch:
git-rebase--merge: don't include absent parent as a base
As nobody maintains our in-tree git.spec.in and distros use their
own spec file, we stopped pretending that we support "make rpm".
* jc/drop-git-spec-in:
Makefile: remove dependency on git.spec
Makefile: stop pretending to support rpmbuild
HTTP transport clients learned to throw extra HTTP headers at the
server, specified via http.extraHeader configuration variable.
* js/http-custom-headers:
http: support sending custom HTTP headers
The test scripts for "git p4" (but not "git p4" implementation
itself) has been updated so that they would work even on a system
where the installed version of Python is python 3.
* ld/p4-test-py3:
git-p4 tests: time_in_seconds should use $PYTHON_PATH
git-p4 tests: work with python3 as well as python2
git-p4 tests: cd to / before running python
A question by "git send-email" to ask the identity of the sender
has been updated.
* jd/send-email-to-whom:
send-email: fix grammo in the prompt that asks e-mail recipients
"git describe --contains" often made a hard-to-justify choice of
tag to give name to a given commit, because it tried to come up
with a name with smallest number of hops from a tag, causing an old
commit whose close descendant that is recently tagged were not
described with respect to an old tag but with a newer tag. It did
not help that its computation of "hop" count was further tweaked to
penalize being on a side branch of a merge. The logic has been
updated to favor using the tag with the oldest tagger date, which
is a lot easier to explain to the end users: "We describe a commit
in terms of the (chronologically) oldest tag that contains the
commit."
* js/name-rev-use-oldest-ref:
name-rev: include taggerdate in considering the best name
"git p4" learned to record P4 jobs in Git commit that imports from
the history in Perforce.
* jd/p4-jobs-in-commit:
git-p4: add P4 jobs to git commit message
git-p4: clean-up code style in tests
"merge-recursive" strategy incorrectly checked if a path that is
involved in its internal merge exists in the working tree.
* en/merge-fixes:
merge-recursive: do not check working copy when creating a virtual merge base
merge-recursive: remove duplicate code
