Re: [PATCH v4 4/8] [Newcomer] t7004: Do not prepare things outside test_expect_success

> On Mon, Aug 5, 2024 at 8:00 PM AbdAlRahman Gad <abdobngad@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Do not prepare expect and other things outside test_expect_success.
>> Also add '\' before EOF to avoid shell interpolation and '-' to allow
>> indentation of the body.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: AbdAlRahman Gad <abdobngad@gmail.com>
> 
> When you reroll, it might be a good idea to explain _why_ we don't
> want to run code outside of `test_expect_success`: in particular, if
> such code fails for some reason, we won't necessarily hear about it in
> a timely fashion (or perhaps at all). By placing all code inside
> `test_expect_success` it ensures that we know immediately if it fails.

>>   test_expect_success GPG,RFC1991 \
>>          'reediting a signed tag body omits signature' '
>> +       cat >fakeeditor <<-\EOF &&
>> +       #!/bin/sh
>> +       cp "$1" actual
>> +       EOF
>> +       chmod +x fakeeditor &&
> 
> It's completely outside the scope of this particular patch, but
> another modernization which could be done in a separate patch (or a
> separate patch series -- it doesn't need to be part of this series)
> would be to take advantage of `write_script` which eliminates some of
> the boilerplate-work that the above code is doing. For instance:
> 
>      write_script fakeeditor <<-\EOF
>      cp "$1" actual
>      EOF
> 
> Notice that `write_script` takes care of emitting the `#!/bin/sh` line
> and the `chmod +x`.