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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
To: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail•com>
Cc: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx•net>, git <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/16] bisect: add test for the bisect algorithm
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 13:42:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqd1riqq7o.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD27f3zmrLrvyCuMfs6ijt7MtLB8rX0Ykvfar3kidpm6LQ@mail.gmail.com> (Christian Couder's message of "Sat, 27 Feb 2016 12:40:50 +0100")

Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail•com> writes:

> Hi Stephan,
>
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 10:38 PM, Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx•net> wrote:
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> On 02/26/2016 07:53 AM, Christian Couder wrote:
>>>> +test_expect_success 'bisect algorithm works in linear history with an odd number of commits' '
>>>> +       git bisect start A7 &&
>>>> +       git bisect next &&
>>>> +       test "$(git rev-parse HEAD)" = "$(git rev-parse A3)" \
>>>> +         -o "$(git rev-parse HEAD)" = "$(git rev-parse A4)"
>>>
>>> I thought that we should not use "-o" and "-a" but instead "|| test"
>>> and "&& test".
>>
>> Why is this?
>
> I think it is because it might not be very portable, but I am not sure
> I remember well the previous discussions about this.

See Documentation/CodingGuidelines:

 - We do not write our "test" command with "-a" and "-o" and use "&&"
   or "||" to concatenate multiple "test" commands instead, because
   the use of "-a/-o" is often error-prone.  E.g.

     test -n "$x" -a "$a" = "$b"

   is buggy and breaks when $x is "=", but

     test -n "$x" && test "$a" = "$b"

   does not have such a problem.

Regarding portability, test -a/-o is not strictly POSIX (it's in the XSI
extension), but AFAIK implemented by all reasonable shells.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-27 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-26  2:04 [PATCH 00/16] git bisect improvements Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 01/16] bisect: write about `bisect next` in documentation Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  8:02   ` Jacob Keller
2016-02-26 18:47   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-27 13:45     ` Stephan Beyer
2016-02-27 18:03       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-27 19:38         ` Stephan Beyer
2016-02-28 18:28           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 02/16] bisect: add test for the bisect algorithm Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  6:53   ` Christian Couder
2016-02-26 21:38     ` Stephan Beyer
2016-02-27 11:40       ` Christian Couder
2016-02-27 12:42         ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 03/16] bisect: make bisect compile if DEBUG_BISECT is set Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 04/16] bisect: make algorithm behavior independent of DEBUG_BISECT Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 05/16] bisect: get rid of recursion in count_distance() Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 06/16] bisect: use struct node_data array instead of int array Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 07/16] bisect: replace clear_distance() by unique markers Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 08/16] bisect: use commit instead of commit list as arguments when appropriate Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  3:10   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 09/16] bisect: extract get_distance() function from code duplication Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 10/16] bisect: introduce distance_direction() Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 11/16] bisect: make total number of commits global Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 12/16] bisect: rename count_distance() to compute_weight() Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 13/16] bisect: prepare for different algorithms based on find_all Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 14/16] bisect: use a modified breadth-first search to find relevant weights Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  3:09   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-26 20:55     ` Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 15/16] bisect: compute best bisection in compute_relevant_weights() Stephan Beyer
2016-02-26  2:04 ` [PATCH 16/16] bisect: get back halfway shortcut Stephan Beyer
2016-03-20 18:50 ` [PATCH 00/16] git bisect improvements Pranit Bauva
2016-03-21 22:22   ` Stephan Beyer
2016-03-22  7:35     ` Christian Couder
2016-03-22 11:35     ` Pranit Bauva

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