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[PATCH v3 5/5] tests: fix and add lint for non-portable grep --file

From
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 23, 2018, 20:36 UTC
Message-ID
<20180823203604.5564-6-avarab@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20180823152502.3886-2-avarab@gmail.com>

The --file option to grep isn't in POSIX[1], but -f is[1]. Let's check for that in the future, and fix the portability regression in f237c8b6fe ("commit-graph: implement git-commit-graph write", 2018-04-02) that broke e.g. AIX.

1. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/grep.html
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
---
 t/check-non-portable-shell.pl | 1 +
 t/t5318-commit-graph.sh       | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/t/check-non-portable-shell.pl b/t/check-non-portable-shell.pl
index 75f38298d7..b45bdac688 100755
--- a/t/check-non-portable-shell.pl
+++ b/t/check-non-portable-shell.pl
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ sub err {
 	/\bwc -l.*"\s*=/ and err '`"$(wc -l)"` is not portable (use test_line_count)';
 	/\bhead\s+-c\b/ and err 'head -c is not portable (use test_copy_bytes BYTES <file >out)';
 	/(?:\$\(seq|^\s*seq\b)/ and err 'seq is not portable (use test_seq)';
+	/\bgrep\b.*--file\b/ and err 'grep --file FILE is not portable (use grep -f FILE)';
 	/\bexport\s+[A-Za-z0-9_]*=/ and err '"export FOO=bar" is not portable (use FOO=bar && export FOO)';
 	/^\s*([A-Z0-9_]+=(\w+|(["']).*?\3)\s+)+(\w+)/ and exists($func{$4}) and
 		err '"FOO=bar shell_func" assignment extends beyond "shell_func"';
diff --git a/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh b/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh
index 3c1ffad491..0c500f7ca2 100755
--- a/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh
+++ b/t/t5318-commit-graph.sh
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ test_expect_success 'Add one more commit' '
 	git branch commits/8 &&
 	ls $objdir/pack | grep idx >existing-idx &&
 	git repack &&
-	ls $objdir/pack| grep idx | grep -v --file=existing-idx >new-idx
+	ls $objdir/pack| grep idx | grep -v -f existing-idx >new-idx
 '
 
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  1. tests: fix and add lint for non-portable head -c NÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 23, 2018
  2. Test failures on OpenBSDÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 23, 2018
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 23, 2018
  4. 1/2 tests: fix and add lint for non-portable head -c NÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 23, 2018
  5. Jeff KingAug 23, 2018
  6. 2/2 tests: fix and add lint for non-portable seqÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 23, 2018
  7. Junio C HamanoAug 23, 2018
  8. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 23, 2018
  9. 0/5 OpenBSD & AIX etc. portability fixesÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 23, 2018
  10. 1/5 tests: fix and add lint for non-portable head -c NÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 23, 2018
  11. 2/5 tests: fix and add lint for non-portable seqÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 23, 2018
  12. 3/5 tests: use shorter here-docs in chainlint.sed for AIX sedÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 23, 2018
  13. Junio C HamanoAug 23, 2018
  14. Eric SunshineAug 23, 2018
  15. 0/6 OpenBSD & AIX etc. portability fixesÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 24, 2018
  16. 1/6 tests: fix and add lint for non-portable head -c NÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 24, 2018
  17. 2/6 tests: fix and add lint for non-portable seqÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 24, 2018
  18. 3/6 tests: fix comment syntax in chainlint.sed for AIX sedÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 24, 2018
  19. Eric SunshineAug 24, 2018
  20. 4/6 tests: use shorter here-docs in chainlint.sed for AIX sedÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 24, 2018
  21. Eric SunshineAug 24, 2018
  22. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 28, 2018
  23. Eric SunshineAug 28, 2018
  24. Junio C HamanoAug 27, 2018
  25. 5/6 tests: fix version-specific portability issue in Perl JSONÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 24, 2018
  26. Eric SunshineAug 24, 2018
  27. 6/6 tests: fix and add lint for non-portable grep --fileÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 24, 2018
  28. 4/5 tests: fix version-specific portability issue in Perl JSONÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 23, 2018
  29. 5/5 tests: fix and add lint for non-portable grep --fileÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 23, 2018
  30. Junio C HamanoAug 23, 2018
  31. Derrick StoleeAug 24, 2018
  32. Junio C HamanoAug 23, 2018
  33. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 23, 2018

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