On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 05:11:42PM -0200, Eduardo Habkost wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 10:51:28AM -0800, Stefan Beller wrote: >> > On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [...] >> > > + test $(git cat-file commit HEAD | grep -c "Signed-off-by:") -eq 0 >> > >> > and then we check if the top most commit has zero occurrences >> > for lines grepped for sign off. That certainly works, but took me a >> > while to understand (TIL about -c in grep :). >> > >> > Another way that to write this check, that Git regulars may be more used to is: >> > >> > git cat-file commit HEAD | grep "Signed-off-by:" >actual >> > test_must_be_empty actual >> >> test_must_be_empty is what I was looking for. But if I do this: >> >> test_expect_success '--no-signoff overrides am.signoff' ' >> rm -fr .git/rebase-apply && >> git reset --hard first && >> test_config am.signoff true && >> git am --no-signoff <patch2 && >> printf "%s\n" "$signoff" >expected && >> git cat-file commit HEAD^ | grep "Signed-off-by:" >actual && >> test_cmp expected actual && >> git cat-file commit HEAD | grep "Signed-off-by:" >actual && >> test_must_be_empty actual >> ' >> >> The test fails because the second "grep" command returns a >> non-zero exit code. Any suggestions to avoid that problem in a >> more idiomatic way? > > I just found out that "test_must_fail grep ..." is a common > idiom, so what about: Uh, no please. test_must_fail is supposed to be used for commands to be tested, i.e. git commands as this is the git test suite. :) test_must_fail checks, e.g. that the failing command "properly" fails instead of bye-bye-segfault. And grep would never do this. (In this world we assume everything to be perfect except git itself) For grep just use ! git cat-file commit HEAD >actual && ! grep "Signed-off-by:" actual $ git grep "test_must_fail grep" returns 20 occurrences, so in case you're that would be a good cleanup patch (if you're interested in such things). Thanks, Stefan