From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 07:23:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 0/2] introduce --[no-]autostash command line flag
Message-ID: <CAPig+cTqnev_YpamaSi1tkvWydZHRadBzo_zLnF1Pd6FyWKiTQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1458584283-23816-1-git-send-email-mehul.jain2029@gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Mehul Jain <mehul.jain2029@gmail.com> wrote:
> Changes introduced w.r.t. previous patch:
> [...]
> * Two more tests are added to checkout for error when "git pull
>   --[no-]autostash" is called. Here I'm forced to use "test_i18ncmp"
>   instead of "test_i18ngrep" to compare the expected error message with
>   the actual because grep was, unfortunately, reading "--[no-]autostash"
>   as an option and thus leading to test failure.

Pass -e to grep to treat the next argument as an expression (even if
it happens to look like an option):

    test_i18ngrep -e "--[no-]-autostash ..."

You may also need to escape the [ and ] with backslash (\) to force
grep to treat them as literal characters rather than as the character
set "[no-]". Alternately, rather than escaping, also pass the -F flag
to make it treat all characters as literals.