On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 08:33, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Some tests check their output with code like the following:
>
> Â Â Â Âtest "$(git ls-files -u B | wc -l)" -eq 3 || {
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âecho "BAD: should have left stages for B"
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âreturn 1
> Â Â Â Â}
>
> The verbose failure condition is used because test, unlike
> diff, does not print any useful information about the
> nature of the failure when it fails.
>
> Introduce a test_line_count function to help. If used like
>
> Â Â Â Âgit ls-files -u B >output &&
> Â Â Â Âtest_line_count -eq 3 output
In an earlier thread I suggested an interface like:
test_line_count 3 "git ls-files -u B"
But I like yours much better. Ack.
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