Johannes Sixt <j...@kdbg.org> writes:
> Pitfalls ahead!
Thanks. I said "at least the latter" for this exact reason ;-).
> 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.
Or you could do
test_must_fail env VAR=VAL git rebase ...
which I am not particularly fond of, but seems to be used quite
often.
