On 21 Dec 2015, at 21:38, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > larsxschneider@xxxxxxxxx writes: > >> From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> If tests are executed in verbose mode then the retry logic clutters the >> test output. Suppress that clutter. >> >> Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> t/lib-git-p4.sh | 2 +- >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/t/lib-git-p4.sh b/t/lib-git-p4.sh >> index 30bf7ae..03f29c1 100644 >> --- a/t/lib-git-p4.sh >> +++ b/t/lib-git-p4.sh >> @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ retry_until_fail() { >> until ! "$@" 2>/dev/null || test $(time_in_seconds) -gt $timeout >> do >> sleep 1 >> - done >> + done >/dev/null 2>&1 > > Eh, what does this squelch? The sleep in the body of the loop is > silent, "test A -gt B" on the loop condition would be silent too, so > you are squelching the invocation of "$@" whose standard error > stream is already sent to 2>/dev/null? > > If so, why not do it there instead? You seem to run only "kill" to > send some signal to a process using this helper function, and it > would be silent on its standard output stream (even though it may > say "no such process" etc. on its standard error), so it is not > clear to me what you are doing with this change here... If I run git-p4 tests in verbose mode (e.g. "./t9823-git-p4-mock-lfs.sh -v") without this patch then the last lines of the output look like this: >>> Output Start >>> expecting success: kill_p4d ./lib-git-p4.sh: line 172: 26289 Killed: 9 while true; do if test $(time_in_seconds) -gt $timeout; then kill -9 $pid; exit 1; fi; sleep 1; done ok 8 - kill p4d # passed all 8 test(s) 1..8 <<< Output end <<< However, I want them to look like this: >>> Output Start >>> expecting success: kill_p4d ok 8 - kill p4d # passed all 8 test(s) 1..8 <<< Output end <<< This is achieved with the patch. I am no shell expert ... is there a nicer way to achieve the same? Thanks, Lars -- 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