Max Kirillov <max@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Looks like there is no exact specification what `diff -c` and > `diff --cc` should output. Considering this it is not reasonable to > hardcode any specific output in test. OK. > Rather, it should verify that file > selection behaves the same as hunk selection. Hrm, really? "git diff --raw" and "git diff -p -w" on two trees would not show identical set of paths, when the blob object are different byte-wise but are equivalent at the content level per given definition of equivalence (e.g. "-w"). Given that --cc is to look at the differences at hunk/content level to combine and omit uninteresting ones from the output, relative to -c output, I would imagine that the file selection and the hunk selection are expected to behave differently. So, having said that I am a bit skeptical about the description of the goals, there are a few nits on the implementation, too. > +# the difference in short file must be returned if and only if it is shown in long file > +for fn in win1 win2 merge delete base only1 only2 only1discard only2discard; do > + if git diff --cc merge branch1 branch2 mergebase -- long/$fn | grep -q '^[ +-]\{3\}2\(change[12]|merge\)\?$' > + then Just like the earlier parts of this patch, write a newline when you do not have to write a semicolon, and split lines after pipe when your pipeline gets long, i.e. for fn in win2 win2 ... do if git diff --cc ... | grep 'pattern' then Do I smell some GNUism in your "grep" patterns? You have '^[ +-]\{3\}2\(change[12]|merge\)\?$' but matching zero-or-one repetition with ? is not in BRE, and \? to use it in BRE is a GNU extension. Also in BRE , '|' is not an alternation (and making it into such with '\|' in BRE is a GNU extension IIRC. Worse, you are not using backslash here to invoke GNU extension, so I suspect the grep invocations in the patch may not be working as you expect. Doubly worse, what is shown by "diff -c" for line 2 seems to be three [- +] columns, followed by one of 2 2change1 2change2 2merged followed by the end of line, so your "|merge" part may never match. We encourage people to avoid \{m,n\}, because, it is not supported by some implementations even though it is specified in POSIX for BRE. Perhaps spelling out what you are expecting a bit more explicitly, e.g. grep -e "^[-+ ][-+ ][-+ ]2$" \ -e "^[-+ ][-+ ][-+ ]2change[12]$" \ -e "^[-+ ][-+ ][-+ ]2merged$" might be a reasonable way to write this in a more portable and readable way. And turn that into a helper shell function to make it more readable and maintainable for a bonus point. Thanks. -- 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