Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Based on your responses, I'm leaning towards: > > test_cmp_str() { > test "$@" && return 0 > echo >&2 "command failed: test $*" > return 1 > } > > since the point is really just to print _something_ when the test fails > (any quoting or whitespace may be wrong, of course, but that's OK; it's > for human consumption, and is just a hint). If we really cared, we could do echo >&2 "command failed: test $(git rev-parse --sq-quote "$@")" perhaps? -- 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