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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google•com>,
	Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx•de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/9] t5520: fixup file contents comparisons
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 07:42:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqa8x8bkuc.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqk2wcbmq5.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Wed, 13 May 2015 07:01:22 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:

> Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail•com> writes:
>
>> Replace the above 2 forms with:
>>
>> 	verbose test "$(cat file)" = expected
>
> Quoting is very much a good idea, but I am not enthused by the
> vision of having to write verbose everywhere in our script.
>
> After seeing a script fail, you can run it again with -i -x options;
> wouldn't it be sufficient?

Just to avoid misunderstanding, I am unhappy if we have to keep
writing "verbose test" in that exact form.

Just like we invented to help debugging by wrapping "cmp" with
"test_cmp" (i.e. we want to see if the file contents are the same,
but a person who debugs can be helped by seeing the differences when
the expectation is not met), I do not mind if we had a shorter and
cleanly-named wrapper that we can use consistently.  E.g. I do not
mind something like this in test-lib-functions.sh

	test_file_contents () {
		if test "$(cat "$1")" != "$2"
		then
			echo "Contents of file $1 is not $2"
                        false
		fi
	}

and used like so:

	test_file_contents file expected_string

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-13 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-13  9:08 [PATCH v3 0/9] Improve git-pull test coverage Paul Tan
2015-05-13  9:08 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] t5520: fixup file contents comparisons Paul Tan
2015-05-13 14:01   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-13 14:42     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-05-14 17:29       ` Michael Blume
2015-05-14 17:44         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-15 11:41           ` Paul Tan
2015-05-15 18:37             ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-15 19:22               ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-16 13:49               ` Paul Tan
2015-05-16 18:57                 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-16 23:32                   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-17  7:47                   ` Paul Tan
2015-05-13  9:08 ` [PATCH v3 2/9] t5520: ensure origin refs are updated Paul Tan
2015-05-13 14:27   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-18 13:09     ` Paul Tan
2015-05-13  9:08 ` [PATCH v3 3/9] t5520: test no merge candidates cases Paul Tan
2015-05-13  9:08 ` [PATCH v3 4/9] t5520: test for failure if index has unresolved entries Paul Tan
2015-05-13  9:32   ` Matthieu Moy
2015-05-15  8:25   ` Paul Tan
2015-05-13  9:08 ` [PATCH v3 5/9] t5520: test work tree fast-forward when fetch updates head Paul Tan
2015-05-13  9:08 ` [PATCH v3 6/9] t5520: test --rebase with multiple branches Paul Tan
2015-05-13  9:08 ` [PATCH v3 7/9] t5520: test --rebase failure on unborn branch with index Paul Tan
2015-05-13  9:08 ` [PATCH v3 8/9] t5521: test --dry-run does not make any changes Paul Tan
2015-05-13  9:08 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] t5520: check reflog action in fast-forward merge Paul Tan

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