On 10 October 2017 at 16:29, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 10:10:19AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > it will randomly succeed or fail, depending on whether sed manages to > read the input before the stdin terminal is closed. > > I'm not sure of an easy way to fix test-terminal, but we could work > around it like this (which also uses "-p" to actually invoke the pager, > and uses a pager that makes it clear when it's being run): > > diff --git a/t/t9002-column.sh b/t/t9002-column.sh > index 9441145bf0..d322c3b745 100755 > --- a/t/t9002-column.sh > +++ b/t/t9002-column.sh > @@ -180,14 +180,14 @@ EOF > > test_expect_success TTY '20 columns, mode auto, pager' ' > cat >expected <<\EOF && > -one seven > -two eight > -three nine > -four ten > -five eleven > -six > +paged:one seven > +paged:two eight > +paged:three nine > +paged:four ten > +paged:five eleven > +paged:six > EOF > - test_terminal env PAGER="cat|cat" git column --mode=auto <lista >actual && > + test_terminal env PAGER="sed s/^/paged:/" sh -c "git -p column --mode=auto <lista" >actual && > test_cmp expected actual > ' > test_done Makes sense. FWIW, I don't see the flakyness with this. > All that said, I think I'd just as soon test a real command like "git > tag", which doesn't care about reading from stdin. For reference for Kevin, in case you consider testing, e.g., git tag, the main reason I referred to the test I posted as "hacky", was that I just inserted it at a more-or-less random place in t7006. So it had to play with `git reset` to avoid upsetting the later tests. It could obviously go to the end instead, but I was too lazy to move it and define a pager.