Re: [PATCH 1/6] t1600-index: remove unnecessary redirection

> On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 02:12:36PM -0400, Derrick Stolee wrote:
>> On 8/17/2021 1:49 PM, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
>>> In a helper function in the 't1600-index.sh' test script the stderr
>>> of a 'git add' command is redirected to its stdout, but its stdout is
>>> not redirected anywhere.  So apparently this redirection is
>>> unnecessary, remove it.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>  t/t1600-index.sh | 2 +-
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/t/t1600-index.sh b/t/t1600-index.sh
>>> index c9b9e718b8..5d10cec67a 100755
>>> --- a/t/t1600-index.sh
>>> +++ b/t/t1600-index.sh
>>> @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ test_index_version () {
>>>  		else
>>>  			unset GIT_INDEX_VERSION
>>>  		fi &&
>>> -		git add a 2>&1 &&
>>> +		git add a &&
>>>  		echo $EXPECTED_OUTPUT_VERSION >expect &&
>>>  		test-tool index-version <.git/index >actual &&
>>>  		test_cmp expect actual
>>
>> Since here we have a 'test_cmp expect actual', perhaps the
>> actual mistake is that the line isn't
>>
>> 	git add a 2>&1 >actual &&
>>
>> What do you think about that?
> 
> The actual file is written two lines later as:
> 
>   test-tool index-version <.git/index >actual
> 
> So it seems that neither stdout nor stderr of that 'git add' command
> matters.

> However, in most of the preceeding tests 'git add's stderr does indeed
> matter, as they do:
> 
>     git add a 2>&1 | sed "s/[0-9]//" >actual.err &&
>     # write expect.err
>     test_cmp expect.err actual.err
> 
> I suspect that the 2>&1 redirection this patch is removing might have
> been a copy-paste error.