Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] test-lib: add --verbose-log option

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 10:12:16 -0700

Jeff King <[email-masked]> writes:

> This patch implements option (5), which seems to work well
> in practice.

Your journey to reach this final design and implementation may have
been painful---I really like the end result.  This was an accident
waiting to happen.

Thanks for fixing it.

> @@ -319,7 +332,10 @@ fi
>  
>  exec 5>&1
>  exec 6<&0
> -if test "$verbose" = "t"
> +if test "$verbose_log" = "t"
> +then
> +	exec 3>>"$GIT_TEST_TEE_OUTPUT_FILE" 4>&3
> +elif test "$verbose" = "t"
>  then
>  	exec 4>&2 3>&1
>  else

OK, unlike "verbose" case where we give 3 (saved stdout) to 1 and 4
(saved stderr) to 2, we send 3 to the output file and 4 to the same.

Makes sense.