From: "Eric Sunshine" <sunsh...@sunshineco.com>
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 9:54 PM, Eric Sunshine <sunsh...@sunshineco.com>
wrote:
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org>
wrote:
+test_expect_success $PREREQ 'cc trailer with get_maintainer output' '
+ [...]
+ git send-email -1 --to=recipi...@example.com \
+ --cc-cmd="$(pwd)/expected-cc-script.sh" \
+ [...]
+'
OK I'm afraid I don't fully understand the test harness as this breaks a
bunch of other tests. If anyone can offer some pointers on how to fix
I'd be grateful.
There are several problems:
[...]
* The directory in which the expected-cc-script.sh is created contains
a space; this is intentional to catch bugs in tests and Git itself. In
this case, your test is exposing what might be considered a bug in
git-send-email itself, in which it invokes the --cc-cmd as "/path/with
space/expected-cc-script.sh", which is interpreted as trying to invoke
program "/path/with" with argument "space/expected-cc-script.sh". One
> fix (which you could submit as a preparatory patch, making this a
> 2-patch series) would be this:
>
> --- 8< ---
> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
> @@ -1724,7 +1724,7 @@ sub recipients_cmd {
> - open my $fh, "-|", "$cmd \Q$file\E"
> + open my $fh, "-|", "\Q$cmd\E \Q$file\E"
> --- 8< ---
>
> However, it's possible that might break existing users who rely on
> --cc-cmd="myscript --option arg" working. It's not clear which
> behavior is correct.
The more I think about this, the less I consider this a bug in
git-send-email. As noted, people might legitimately use a complex
command (--cc-cmd="myscript--option arg"), so changing git-send-email
to treat cc-cmd as an atomic string seems like a bad idea.
A while back I proposed some documentation updates
https://public-inbox.org/git/1437416790-5792-1-git-send-email-philipoak...@iee.org/
regarding what is (should be) allowed in the cc-cmd etc., and at the time
Junio suggested that possible existing uses of the current code would be
abuses. I didn't pursue it further, but it may be useful guidance here as to
potential real world command lines..
Assuming no changes to git-send-email, to get your test working, you
could try to figure out how to quote the script's path you're
specifying with --cc-cmd, however, even easier would be to drop $(pwd)
altogether. That is, instead of:
--cc-cmd="$(pwd)/expected-cc-script.sh"
just use:
--cc-cmd=./expected-cc-script.sh
