Re: [PATCH] t2400: Fix test failures when using grep 2.5
On 23/07/18 02:36PM, Phillip Wood wrote:
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> The existing code is not consistent on this point but I think there are
> more instances of " " than "\t". Using " " makes the indentation
> consistent as the "hint: " prefix is translated so we don't know how far
> the next tab stop will be from the end of the prefix.
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> In the test we are redirecting the output to a file so things like tmux
> do not come into play. I think it would be a bit odd for the system libc
> to convert tabs to spaces.
Understood. It was just a bit of paranoia on my part then.
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> > Understood. I'll start working on a separate patch to update that
> > warning once this patch settles then.
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> That's great. I think just telling the user something like
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> branch 'main' does not exist
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> when HEAD contains the dangling symbolic ref "refs/heads/main" and
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> HEAD is corrupt
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> when it is not a symbolic ref and repo_get_oid() fails would be fine.
Noted. I'll workshop it a bit before I put v1 of that patch out.