Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> writes: > Thanks for the detailed suggestion. > Instead of using a file for putting out non portable syntax, > can we can use a similar logic as test_failure ? Your test_bad_syntax_ function can be called from a subshell, and its "exit 1" will not exit, no? test_expect_success 'prepare a blob with incomplete line' ' ( echo first line echo second line echo -n final and incomplete line ) >incomplete.txt ' -- 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