On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 2:17 PM Johannes Sixt <j...@kdbg.org> wrote: > Pitfalls ahead! > > PATH=... git rebase ... > > is OK, but > > PATH=... test_must_fail git rebase ... > > is not; the latter requires the subshell, otherwise the modified PATH > variable survives the command because test_must_fail is a shell > function. Yes, it's silly, but that's how it is.
As an alternative to the subshell, some test use 'env':
test_must_fail env PATH=... git rebase ...
