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Fwd: [GSOC] Microproject: Use `test_path_is_*` functions in test scripts

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Mar 19, 2024, 20:21 UTC
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Greetings,

My name is Sanchit Jindal, I will be graduating with a B.E in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay this year. I am writing to express my keen interest in contributing to Git as part of the GSOC program.

As I prepare to graduate, I am eager to contribute to open source development, and I believe that participating in GSoC with Git would be an excellent opportunity to kickstart this endeavor.

For the microproject, I can update the file `t/t9803-git-p4-shell-metachars.sh` with the `test_path_*` asserts as required,the tests only have the checks at 6 locations which can be replaced with `test_path_exists`, `test_path_is_missing` and `test_path_is_file`, Please let me know if this is enough for a microproject.

I am particularly interested in the "Move existing tests to a unit testing framework" project. I plan to familiarize myself with the testing framework, and the changes needed in the codebase for the project

Regards Sanchit Jindal

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