Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] tests: Prepare --textconv tests for correctly-failing conversion program

> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 04:07:22PM +0400, Kirill Smelkov wrote:
> 
> > > Granted, echo is forgiving and will concatenate the arguments it gets with
> > > a space in between, but you would either want to either:
> > > 
> > >  (1) make it more explicit that helper gets only one argument, by saying
> > >      "$1" instead of "$@", in all places in the helper script; or
> > > 
> > >  (2) if you are planning to make 'helper' capable of handling multiple
> > >      input files, show the error message for the ones that are not binary
> > >      (you would probably need a loop for that).
> > > 
> > > I think (1) would be sufficient in this case.
> > 
> > I too think (1) is right. It was just that originally there was $@
> > (which I now understand was wrong). So ok to apply the following patch
> > on top of this series? (I assume it's ok, and will repost the whole
> > thing)
> 
> No, "helper" is supposed to be able to take multiple arguments, at least
> in t4042. See the "changing textconv invalidates cache" test. The extra
> argument comes from the user, not from git.