Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com> writes:

quoted text
> 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

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