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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
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+Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] test: add "set -u" to test-lib.sh\r
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+Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:\r
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+> This prohibits unset variables to expand to empty strings.\r
+> Without this e.g misspelled variables cause unintentional results.\r
+>\r
+> Now all the test variables are either initialized, or in case of\r
+> optional arguments and user-provided environment variables (i.e.\r
+> when it is not know whethet the variable is set) the form\r
+> ${variable-} is used.\r
+>\r
+> Two unusable lines (leftovers?) in T360-symbol-hiding.sh were removed;\r
+> this was the only non-lib test code that needed to be edited for this\r
+> change to work.\r
+\r
+Hi Tomi;\r
+\r
+I like the idea, but currently I get many test failures with\r
+\r
+/test-lib.sh: line 926: test_subtest_missing_external_prereq_: unbound variable\r
+\r
+d\r