From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 19:20:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] test: improve rebase -q test
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In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s3Pny7JkyHbLZ3kUemNK70JhdYWdpELTjNLz0y3Z2V3+A@mail.gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> --- a/t/test-lib-functions.sh
>> +++ b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
>> @@ -606,6 +606,18 @@ test_cmp() {
>>         $GIT_TEST_CMP "$@"
>>  }
>>
>> +# Check if the file expected to be empty is indeed empty, and barfs
>> +# otherwise.
>> +
>> +test_output_must_be_empty () {
>
> Why such a big name? test_empty() does the trick.

Primarily in order to avoid that exact name "test_empty" that others
may want to use for a helper to check that the contents of a string
variable is empty.  test-file-must-be-empty is a bit shorter and
also good for that purpose; I do not think we want to go any shorter
than that.