From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2018 06:28:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] [Outreachy] t3903-stash: test without configured user.name and user.email
Message-ID: <xmqq36ryhpbh.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <a75dcea8-797d-9c9b-3453-2de2a4d983dd@gmail.com>

Slavica Djukic <slavicadj.ip2018@gmail.com> writes:

>> Yes, but for that you'd need to be checking the resulting commit
>> object that represents the stash entry.  It should be created under
>> the substitute identity.
> Would it be correct to check it like this:
>
>         git reset &&
>         >1 &&
>         git add 1 &&
>         echo "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME <$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL>" >expect &&
>         git stash &&
>         git show -s --format="%an <%ae>" refs/stash >actual &&
>         test_cmp expect actual

So, you create a stash, and grab %an and %ae out of the resulting
commit object and store them in actual, and then compare.  Makes
sense.