Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] t9109-git-svn-props.sh: split up several pipes

From: Matthew DeVore <matvore@google.com>
Date: Sep 19, 2018, 18:43 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMfpvh+BO_7z_K52jNupLMmx-gbNSwJzfswVQeNsPWVx7onTEw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cQ3M+Wtyrm_GGRhL7kgM0eWPsXanK-AbLtJiQsORJ3A5A@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 5:50 AM Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:

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> If so, then please use test_cmp() rather than raw 'cmp' since
> test_cmp() will show the actual difference between the expected and
> actual files, which can be helpful when diagnosing a failing test.
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All the other testcases in this file use "cmp" and I would prefer to maintain the consistency in this file. Note that the non-stylistic fixes (breaking up pipes) in this test were originally not the goal of this patchset, so changing this entire file to use test_cmp (or even just a single testcase) seems like it's just getting even farther away from the original goal of making pipe placement consistent in the code base.

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> Rather than escaping "$" with backslash, a cleaner fix would be to
> change the double quotes around the test body to single quotes. Those
> double quotes weren't needed anyhow since there are no variable
> interpolations in the body. Single quotes would make that obvious at a
> glance in addition to avoiding unexpected behavior in the future (like
> $1, $2, etc. being interpolated at the wrong time). Single quotes
> would also make the test more idiomatic and consistent with the bulk
> of other tests in the suite. If you do go the route of swapping
> quotes, please be sure to mention the change in the commit message.

Done. I thought of that earlier and thought that I should use double quotes for consistency with the surrounding code, but then I saw that there were testcases farther away in the same file that used single quotes.

Here is the new commit message:

t9109: don't swallow Git errors upstream of pipes

'git ... | foo' will mask any errors or crashes in git, so split up such pipes in this file.

One testcase uses several separate pipe sequences in a row which are awkward to split up. Wrap the split-up pipe in a function so the awkwardness is not repeated. Also change that testcase's surrounding quotes from double to single to avoid premature string interpolation.

Signed-off-by: Matthew DeVore <matvore@google.com>

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> Thanks.

Thank you!