To get the 'value' from '--option=value', test-lib.sh parses said
option running 'expr' with a regexp. This involves a subshell, an
external process, and a lot of non-alphanumeric characters in the
regexp.
Use a much simpler POSIX-defined shell parameter expansion instead to
do the same.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>