From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:52:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tests: turn on test-lint-shell-syntax by default
Message-ID: <7v4nhqsctb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <51116D3E.3070409@web.de>

Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> writes:

> Thanks for the detailed suggestion.
> Instead of using a file for putting out non portable syntax,
> can we can use a similar logic as test_failure ?

Your test_bad_syntax_ function can be called from a subshell, and
its "exit 1" will not exit, no?

	test_expect_success 'prepare a blob with incomplete line' '
		(
			echo first line
                        echo second line
			echo -n final and incomplete line
		) >incomplete.txt
	'