Re: [RFC PATCH 3/7] t3705: add tests for `git add` in sparse checkouts

> On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 6:04 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br> writes:
>> > +for opt in "" -f -u --ignore-removal
>> > +do
>> > +     if test -n "$opt"
>> > +     then
>> > +             opt=" $opt"
>> > +     fi
>> > +     test_expect_success "git add$opt does not update SKIP_WORKTREE entries" '
>>
>> The above is cumulative, and as a consequence, "git add -u <path>"
>> is not tested, but "git add -f -u <path>" is.  Intended?  How was
>> the order of the options listed in "for opt in ..." chosen?
>
> I may be misreading, but I don't think this is cumulative (though it's
> easy to mistake it as such due to the way it inserts a space before
> $opt).

> ... A more idiomatic way to do this would
> have been:
>
>     for opt in "" -f -u --ignore-removal
>     do
>         test_expect_success " git add${opt:+ $opt} does ..." '