From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2017 14:46:07 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2017, #01; Mon, 4)
Message-ID: <20171209144607.GA6443@tor.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20171207213312.GB3693@zaya.teonanacatl.net>

On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 04:33:12PM -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Jeff Hostetler wrote:
> >I'm looking at t5616 now on my mac.
> >Looks like the MAC doesn't like my line counting in the tests.
> >I'll fix in my next version.
> 
[]
> 		| sort >expect_2.oids &&
> -	test "$(wc -l <expect_2.oids)" = "8" &&
> +	test_line_count = 8 expect_2.oids &&
> 	git -C src blame master -- file.1.txt >expect.blame
> '


The problem seems to be the '"' around wc, this would work:
test $(wc -l <expect_2.oids) = "8" &&


What do you guys think a about a lint test like this:

diff --git a/t/check-non-portable-shell.pl b/t/check-non-portable-shell.pl
index 03dc9d2852..9ebf65c26f 100755
--- a/t/check-non-portable-shell.pl
+++ b/t/check-non-portable-shell.pl
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ while (<>) {
 	/^\s*declare\s+/ and err 'arrays/declare not portable';
 	/^\s*[^#]\s*which\s/ and err 'which is not portable (please use type)';
 	/\btest\s+[^=]*==/ and err '"test a == b" is not portable (please use =)';
+	/\bwc -l.*"\s*=/ and err '`"$(wc -l)"` is not portable, please use `$(wc -l)`';
 	/\bexport\s+[A-Za-z0-9_]*=/ and err '"export FOO=bar" is not portable (please use FOO=bar && expo