From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:04:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] buitin-status: Add tests for submodule summary
Message-ID: <7vprtyxzzd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <47D93875.1050407@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> Ping Yin schrieb:
>> +cd sm &&
>> +head=$(git rev-parse --verify HEAD | cut -c1-7) &&
>> +cd ..
>
> I think you can make these three lines into:
>
> test_expect_success 'get short SHA1 of submodule HEAD' '
>
> 	head=$(cd sm && git rev-parse --verify HEAD | cut -c1-7)
> '

"git rev-parse --short=12 --verify HEAD" or whatever minimum length you
would want would free you from an ugly "pipe to cut".