From: Tanay Abhra Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:56:07 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] add a test for semantic errors in config files Message-ID: <53D11077.10907@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 7/24/2014 3:41 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Matthieu Moy writes: > >> Tanay Abhra writes: >> >>> +test_expect_success 'check line errors for malformed values' ' >>> + cp .git/config .git/config.old && > > Should this be "mv" not "cp"? You will be overwriting the file from > scratch in the later part of this test. > Noted. >>> + test_when_finished "mv .git/config.old .git/config" && >>> + echo "[alias]\n br" >.git/config && > > Is the use of \n portable? > Yes, you are right, will replace with printf in the next patch.