From 02b35660031e1da4036559fb928589ca8c3844bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@fushizen.net>
Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 01:37:54 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] 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>
---
 t/test-lib.sh | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

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