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Re: [PATCH] difftool: fix bug when printing usage

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Feb 8, 2017, 15:06 UTC
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Hi Junio,
On Tue, 7 Feb 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> >
> >>> > Likewise, this would become
> >>> >
> >>> > 	GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES="$PWD/not" \
> >>> > 	test_expect_code 129 git -C not/repo difftool -h >output &&
> >>> > 	grep ^usage: output
> >>> 
> >>> I agree with the intent, but the execution here is "Not quite".
> >>> test_expect_code being a shell function, it does not take the
> >>> "one-shot environment assignment for this single invocation," like
> >>> external commands do.
> >>
> >> So now that we know what is wrong, can you please enlighten me about
> >> what is right?
> >
> > David's original is just fine, isn't it?
> 
> I've also seen people use "env VAR=VAL git command" as the command to be
> tested in t/ scripts.  You can run that under test_expect_code,
> methinks.
That is exactly what David ended up sending out as follow-up patches.

I did not mean to be critical, I just found it to be more helpful to accompany "that does not work" comments with "but this does" in the past.

Ciao, Johannes

Previous: Junio C Hamano
Message 12 of 12 in “Remove --no-gui option from difftool usage string”
  1. Remove --no-gui option from difftool usage stringDenton Liu, Feb 4, 2017
  2. Jacob KellerFeb 4, 2017
  3. Denton LiuFeb 4, 2017
  4. David AguilarFeb 5, 2017
  5. [BUG] was: Re: [PATCH] Remove --no-gui option from difftool usage stringDavid Aguilar, Feb 5, 2017
  6. difftool: fix bug when printing usageDavid Aguilar, Feb 5, 2017
  7. Johannes SchindelinFeb 6, 2017
  8. Junio C HamanoFeb 6, 2017
  9. Johannes SchindelinFeb 7, 2017
  10. Junio C HamanoFeb 7, 2017
  11. Junio C HamanoFeb 7, 2017
  12. Johannes SchindelinFeb 8, 2017

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