From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 15:04:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t1091: don't grep for `strerror()` string
Message-ID: <xmqqmu8p1seh.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200308084627.26677-1-martin.agren@gmail.com>

Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> writes:

> We grep for "File exists" in stderr of the failing `git sparse-checkout`
> to make sure that it failed for the right reason. We expect the string
> to show up there since we call `strerror(errno)` in
> `unable_to_lock_message()` in lockfile.c.
>
> On the NonStop platform, this fails because the error string is "File
> already exists", which doesn't match our grepping.

Thanks for a quick fix.  I agree that looking for our own string
makes a lot more sense here.