On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 02:20:23PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Am 5/12/2011 13:10, schrieb Jeff King: > > +test_expect_success 'cherry-pick a root commit with an external strategy' ' > > + > > + git cherry-pick --strategy=resolve master && > > + test first = $(cat file1) > > What if file1 does not exist? Then cat fails loudly. But this does not > fail the entire command immediately; rather, the test command fails, but > not because of a non-equality, but because of an invalid usage ("syntax > error"). IOW, the test does the right thing, but for the wrong reason. > > Yes, an earlier test gave a bad precedent, and the following fixup (to > be squashed in) fixes it, too. Yeah, sorry, I blindly copied the earlier test without thinking. If we are going to tweak, my preference is actually to use test_cmp. And while we're at it, I should be using test_path_is_missing. So: diff --git a/t/t3503-cherry-pick-root.sh b/t/t3503-cherry-pick-root.sh index 1f9ed67..9aefe3a 100755 --- a/t/t3503-cherry-pick-root.sh +++ b/t/t3503-cherry-pick-root.sh @@ -23,28 +23,30 @@ test_expect_success setup ' test_expect_success 'cherry-pick a root commit' ' git cherry-pick master && - test first = $(cat file1) + echo first >expect && + test_cmp expect file1 ' test_expect_success 'revert a root commit' ' git revert master && - ! test -f file1 + test_path_is_missing file1 ' test_expect_success 'cherry-pick a root commit with an external strategy' ' git cherry-pick --strategy=resolve master && - test first = $(cat file1) + echo first >expect && + test_cmp expect file1 ' test_expect_success 'revert a root commit with an external strategy' ' git revert --strategy=resolve master && - ! test -f file1 + test_path_is_missing file1 ' -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html