Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] [Newcomer] t7004: modernize the style

> AbdAlRahman Gad <abdobngad@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> - Remove whitespace after the redirect operators.
>>
>> - Move number of expect files prepared outside of
>>    test_expect_success to be inside the tests that use it.
>>
>> - Split some lines that have two commands into two lines
>>    one command each.
>>
>> - Turn some "<<\EOF" into "<<-\EOF" and indent their body.
>>
>> - Avoid using pipes in the output from "test-tool ref-store"
>>    and write the output to a file.
>>
>> - Change test_expect_success that are seperated from its name
>>    to be on the same line.
>>
>> - Avoid separating test Description and test body with backslash
>>
>> - Use single quotes instead of double quotes for test description and
>>    body.
>>
>> - Use write_script which takes care of emitting the `#!/bin/sh` line
>>    and the `chmod +x`.
> 
> I gave another look and they all looked fine.  Except the title of
> one step that said
> 
>      t7004: test Description and test body seperated with backslash
> 
> was a "Huh?  what does it even mean?".
> 
>      t7004: begin the test body on the same line as test_expect_success
> 
> or something?  I dunno.
> 

>> There are still tests that could lose exit status to pipe. This needs
>> to be modernized too, I will fix them in another patch series.
> 
> ;-)
> 
> Another one that I noticed is that we have quite a lot of
> 
> 	cat >expect <<-EOF &&
> 	v1.1.3
> 	v2.0
> 	v3.0
> 	EOF
> 
> that can be shortend to
> 
> 	test_write_lines >expect v1.1.3 v2.0 v3.0 &&
> 
> To use without extra quoting, test_write_lines is more limited, but
> the majority of here-doc used for expect files in this test are
> enumeration of tag names that we can write without any extra frills,
> and test_write_lines may be a very good fit for these use cases.
> 
> Thanks.