If quoting is generally preferred as a best practice, we could force
wc to behave more consistently before we start testing
diff --git a/t/test-lib-functions.sh b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
index 0d93e33..57ed608 100644
--- a/t/test-lib-functions.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
@@ -515,6 +515,14 @@ test_path_is_missing () {
fi
}
+# Some platforms disagree about wc output format.
+
+SYS_WC=$(which wc)
+
+wc () {
+ $SYS_WC $@ | sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ *$//'
+}
+
# test_line_count checks that a file has the number of lines it
# ought to. For example:
#
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Johan Herland <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 2:19 AM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Michael Blume <blume.mike@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> the commit modernizing test 3301
>>> (https://github.com/git/git/commit/fbe4f74865acfd) appears to break it
>>> on my mac
>>>
>>> $ ./t3301-notes.sh -v
>>> expecting success:
>>> MSG=b4 git notes add &&
>>> test_path_is_missing .git/NOTES_EDITMSG &&
>>> test "1" = "$(git ls-tree refs/notes/commits | wc -l)" &&
>>> test "b4" = "$(git notes show)" &&
>>> git show HEAD^ &&
>>> test_must_fail git notes show HEAD^
>>>
>>> b4
>>> not ok 8 - create notes
>>
>> This and all other failures are due to the output of 'wc -l', which on
>> Mac is "{whitespace}1" rather than just "1" as it is on other
>> platforms. fbe4f748 added quotes around the $(... | wc -l) invocation
>> which caused the whitespace to be retained. A minimum fix would be to
>> drop the quotes surrounding $().
>
> Ah, thanks!
>
> I thought that quoting command output was a good idea in general. Am I
> wrong, or is this just one exception to an otherwise good guideline?
>
> Anyway, here is the minimal diff to remove quoting from the $(... | wc
> -l) commands (probably whitespace damaged by GMail - sorry). Junio:
> feel free to squash this in, or ask for a re-roll:
>
> diff --git a/t/t3301-notes.sh b/t/t3301-notes.sh
> index cd756ec..2c8abbc 100755
> --- a/t/t3301-notes.sh
> +++ b/t/t3301-notes.sh
> @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ test_expect_success 'show non-existent notes entry with %N' '
> test_expect_success 'create notes' '
> MSG=b4 git notes add &&
> test_path_is_missing .git/NOTES_EDITMSG &&
> - test "1" = "$(git ls-tree refs/notes/commits | wc -l)" &&
> + test "1" = $(git ls-tree refs/notes/commits | wc -l) &&
> test "b4" = "$(git notes show)" &&
> git show HEAD^ &&
> test_must_fail git notes show HEAD^
> @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ test_expect_success 'create reflog entry' '
> test_expect_success 'edit existing notes' '
> MSG=b3 git notes edit &&
> test_path_is_missing .git/NOTES_EDITMSG &&
> - test "1" = "$(git ls-tree refs/notes/commits | wc -l)" &&
> + test "1" = $(git ls-tree refs/notes/commits | wc -l) &&
> test "b3" = "$(git notes show)" &&
> git show HEAD^ &&
> test_must_fail git notes show HEAD^
> @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ test_expect_success 'edit existing notes' '
> test_expect_success 'cannot "git notes add -m" where notes already exists' '
> test_must_fail git notes add -m "b2" &&
> test_path_is_missing .git/NOTES_EDITMSG &&
> - test "1" = "$(git ls-tree refs/notes/commits | wc -l)" &&
> + test "1" = $(git ls-tree refs/notes/commits | wc -l) &&
> test "b3" = "$(git notes show)" &&
> git show HEAD^ &&
> test_must_fail git notes show HEAD^
> @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ test_expect_success 'cannot "git notes add -m" where
> notes already exists' '
> test_expect_success 'can overwrite existing note with "git notes add -f -m"' '
> git notes add -f -m "b1" &&
> test_path_is_missing .git/NOTES_EDITMSG &&
> - test "1" = "$(git ls-tree refs/notes/commits | wc -l)" &&
> + test "1" = $(git ls-tree refs/notes/commits | wc -l) &&
> test "b1" = "$(git notes show)" &&
> git show HEAD^ &&
> test_must_fail git notes show HEAD^
> @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ test_expect_success 'can overwrite existing note
> with "git notes add -f -m"' '
> test_expect_success 'add w/no options on existing note morphs into edit' '
> MSG=b2 git notes add &&
> test_path_is_missing .git/NOTES_EDITMSG &&
> - test "1" = "$(git ls-tree refs/notes/commits | wc -l)" &&
> + test "1" = $(git ls-tree refs/notes/commits | wc -l) &&
> test "b2" = "$(git notes show)" &&
> git show HEAD^ &&
> test_must_fail git notes show HEAD^
> @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ test_expect_success 'add w/no options on existing
> note morphs into edit' '
> test_expect_success 'can overwrite existing note with "git notes add -f"' '
> MSG=b1 git notes add -f &&
> test_path_is_missing .git/NOTES_EDITMSG &&
> - test "1" = "$(git ls-tree refs/notes/commits | wc -l)" &&
> + test "1" = $(git ls-tree refs/notes/commits | wc -l) &&
> test "b1" = "$(git notes show)" &&
> git show HEAD^ &&
> test_must_fail git notes show HEAD^
>
>
> ...Johan
>
> --
> Johan Herland, <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> www.herland.net
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