Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] [Outreachy][Patch v2] t3404: avoid losing exit status to pipes

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Oct 7, 2024, 04:24 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cQ1xC9ky8+NZO0ywmYAa6Vxe2ZUbs_Ae4OTTcWM8tHY_Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPSxiM9eExGxy5biEr_23tCKXaUQg=tsD57VR7e2SVdvVJR+Kg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Oct 6, 2024 at 12:18 PM Usman Akinyemi <usmanakinyemi202@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Kindly, help take a look if this is okay now.
>
> Also, I wanted to change this also to use test_line_count,
>  test 0 = $(grep -c "^[^#]" < .git/rebase-merge/git-rebase-todo)
>
>  But, I tried a different approach and the test kept failing.
>
> Similar as
>
> git show >output &&
> count=$(grep NEVER output | wc -l) &&
> test 0 = $count &&

What is the actual error you encountered?

By the way, we have a handy function, test_must_be_empty(), which can be used if you expect the output to not contain anything. As an example:

    git show >output &&
    grep NEVER output >actual &&
    test_must_be_empty actual