Subject: [PATCH] test-lib: add the test_bash convenience function

From: Jens Lehmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:00:41 +0100

Since 781f76b15 (test-lib: redirect stdin of tests) you can't simply put a
"bash &&" into a test for debugging purposes anymore. Instead you'll have
to use "bash <&6 >&3 2>&4".

As that invocation is not that easy to remember add the test_bash
convenience function. This function also checks if the -v flag is given
and will complain if that is not the case instead of letting the test
hang until ^D is pressed.

Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <[email-masked]>
---

I was tempted to call that method "run_bash" but after looking around
in test-lib.sh "test_bash" seemed like a better name.

 t/test-lib.sh |   11 +++++++++++
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index a65dfc7..f9061e0 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -329,6 +329,17 @@ test_tick () {
 	export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE GIT_AUTHOR_DATE
 }

+# Stop execution and start a bash shell. This is useful for debugging tests
+# and only makes sense together with "-v".
+
+test_bash () {
+	if test "$verbose" = t; then
+		bash <&6 >&3 2>&4
+	else
+		say >&5 "skipping test_bash as it makes no sense without -v"
+	fi
+}
+
 # Call test_commit with the arguments "<message> [<file> [<contents>]]"
 #
 # This will commit a file with the given contents and the given commit
-- 
1.7.9.rc1.1.g46aa0.dirty