From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:35:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t6022: Use -eq not = to test output of wc -l
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In-Reply-To: <1289251766-48316-1-git-send-email-brian@gernhardtsoftware.com>

>  The alternative would be to use 3 = $(wc -l) (sans quotes), but other parts
>  of the test used the -eq method.

A IMO saner alternative is to add a new test-lib.sh function for this.

E.g.:

-       test 3 = "$(git ls-files -u | wc -l)" &&
-       test_wc 3 "git ls-files -u" &&

We could use test_cmp or something internally so we'd get meaningful
output when those tests fail.

But this is a good fix anyway.