From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:07:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] test: improve rebase -q test
Message-ID: <51B623DA.4050802@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130610172708.GH2091@goldbirke>

Am 10.06.2013 19:27, schrieb SZEDER Gábor:
> My main motivation is that, like in your example, in the bash prompt
> tests I only have to check a single line of output, but because of
> debuggability I always did:
> 
>   echo "(master)" >expected
>   __git_ps1 >actual
>   test_cmp expected actual

Chained by &&, I presume.

> With such a helper function this could be reduced to a single line:
> 
>   test_string_equal "(master)" "$(__git_ps1)"
> 
> without loss of functionality

Not quite: A non-zero exit code of the $(__git_ps1) is lost. (It
probably doesn't matter here, but it certainly does if the command is
$(git rev-parse foo) or similar.)

-- Hannes