From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 17:19:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] test: improve rebase -q test
Message-ID: <20130528171907.GA28153@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vvc6311dr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> A more preferrable alternative may be adding something like this to
> test-lib.sh and call it from here and elsewhere (there are about 50
> places that do "test ! -s <filename>"), perhaps?
>
>         test_must_be_an_empty_file () {
>                 if test -s "$1"
>                 then
>                         cat "$1"
>                         false
>                 fi
>         }

I generally just use the two-liner

	>empty &&
	test_cmp empty output

directly in cases like this.

Thanks,
Jonathan