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authorBryan Donlan <bdonlan@fushizen.net>2008-05-04 01:37:54 -0400
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-05-05 14:17:01 -0700
commit02b35660031e1da4036559fb928589ca8c3844bd (patch)
treec6997979e537a39b2b4d95152f4445ee9d6f01de /t
parent065096c2b558af80e670299621ff3ddc6839954c (diff)
downloadgit-02b35660031e1da4036559fb928589ca8c3844bd.tar.gz
test-lib.sh: Add a test_set_editor function to safely set $VISUAL
In particular, this function correctly handles cases where the pwd contains spaces, quotes, and other troublesome metacharacters. Signed-off-by: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@fushizen.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 't')
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diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index 7c2a8ba77d..d7ad13b955 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -160,6 +160,22 @@ die () {
trap 'die' exit
+# The semantics of the editor variables are that of invoking
+# sh -c "$EDITOR \"$@\"" files ...
+#
+# If our trash directory contains shell metacharacters, they will be
+# interpreted if we just set $EDITOR directly, so do a little dance with
+# environment variables to work around this.
+#
+# In particular, quoting isn't enough, as the path may contain the same quote
+# that we're using.
+test_set_editor () {
+ FAKE_EDITOR="$1"
+ export FAKE_EDITOR
+ VISUAL='"$FAKE_EDITOR"'
+ export VISUAL
+}
+
test_tick () {
if test -z "${test_tick+set}"
then