On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Mehul Jain <mehul.jain2029@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Changes introduced w.r.t. previous patch:
>> [...]
>> * Two more tests are added to checkout for error when "git pull
>> --[no-]autostash" is called. Here I'm forced to use "test_i18ncmp"
>> instead of "test_i18ngrep" to compare the expected error message with
>> the actual because grep was, unfortunately, reading "--[no-]autostash"
>> as an option and thus leading to test failure.
>
> Pass -e to grep to treat the next argument as an expression (even if
> it happens to look like an option):
>
> test_i18ngrep -e "--[no-]-autostash ..."
>
> You may also need to escape the [ and ] with backslash (\) to force
> grep to treat them as literal characters rather than as the character
> set "[no-]". Alternately, rather than escaping, also pass the -F flag
> to make it treat all characters as literals.
Thanks for this. I tried it out
test_i18ngrep -F -e "--[no-]autostash ..." err
and worked fine.
Thanks,
Mehul
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