From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 23:07:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] check-non-portable-shell.pl: Quoted `wc -l` is not portable
Message-ID: <xmqqvahc50eg.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171210105013.3984-1-tboegi@web.de>

tboegi@web.de writes:

> From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
>
> wc -l is used to count the number if lines in test scripts.

Hmmmm, "is used" -> "should not be used", probably.

Just say "Use test_line_count instead" and leave the explanation why
it is a better thing to use to fb3340a6 ("test-lib: introduce
test_line_count to measure files", 2010-10-31), perhaps?