Re: t4151 missing quotes

[Armin Kunaschik <megabreit@googlemail.com>]

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On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 11:35 PM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hmph, do we have a broken &&-chain?
>
> I don't know. Unfortunately, Armin didn't provide much information in
> his initial email, saying only "skipping through some failed tests",
> which doesn't necessarily indicate if those tests failed or if he
> somehow manually skipped them.

In t4151 there was only a problem with this test. All other tests
inside t4151 were ok.
Skipping through the tests referred to all git tests, not just t4151.

>> If an earlier test fails and leaves an unmerged path, "ls-files -u"
>> would give some output, so "test -z" would get one or more non-empty
>> strings; if we feed multiple, this would fail.  But we would not have
>> even run "test -z" as long as we properly &&-chain these tests.
>>
>> I think the real issue is when the earlier step succeeds and does
>> not leave any unmerged path.  In that case, we would run "test -z"
>> without anything else on the command line, which would lead to an
>> syntax error.

Yes. While debugging the test, I saw a syntax error. I did not try to find out
why the test argument is empty. It seems not necessary.. the test logic
is still the same.

>>     Side Note: /usr/bin/test and test (built into bash and dash)
>>     seem not to care about the lack of string in "test -z <string>"
>>     and "test -n <string>".  It appears to me that they just take
>>     "-z" and "-n" without "<string>" as a special case of "test
>>     <string>" that is fed "-z" or "-n" as <string>.  Apparently, the
>>     platform Armin is working on doesn't.
>
> I also tested on Mac OS X and BSD, and they happily accept bare "test
> -n", as well (though, I don't doubt that there are old shells which
> complain).

I'm building on a quite current AIX 6.1 where /bin/sh defaults to /bin/ksh
which is a posix shell (ksh88).
Using /bin/bash doesn't work because SHELL_PATH is only used in
git scripts but not in any t* test scripts.