From: Shubham Mishra <shivam828787@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 05:14:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] t0001: avoid pipes with Git on LHS
Message-ID: <CAC316V7QDgZL0jOzgE-Ae86Phmf4XpeQdbKfNS3uA8uL_0uzKw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqo82xthjy.fsf@gitster.g>

HI Junio,
 I acknowledge, this patch is here by mistake, we don't need to merge it.

Thanks,
Shubham

On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 2:40 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Shubham Mishra <shivam828787@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Pipes ignore error codes of LHS command and thu`s we should not use
> > them with Git in tests. As an alternative, use a 'tmp' file to write
> > the Git output so we can test the exit code.
>
> I do not know what thu`s is, but the above describes a sensible
> criterion to decide which pipe to touch and which pipe to leave
> alone.
>
> > -             find .git/worktrees -print | sort >expected &&
> > +             find .git/worktrees -print >tmp &&
> > +             sort tmp >expected &&
>
> And this change or ...
>
> >               git -C ../linked-worktree init &&
> >               test_cmp expected-exclude .git/info/exclude &&
> >               test_cmp expected-config .git/config &&
> > -             find .git/worktrees -print | sort >actual &&
> > +             find .git/worktrees -print >tmp &&
> > +             sort tmp >actual &&
>
> ... this change squarely contradict the reasoning written in the
> proposed log message.  These pipelines place "find" on the upstream
> of their pipe, and "find" is not something we are worried about
> introducing new bug into.
>
> >               test_cmp expected actual
> >       )
> >  '