On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 01:36:01AM +0100, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > 'git for-each-ref' should error out when invoked with more than one > quoting style options. The tests checking this have two issues: > > - They run 'git for-each-ref' upstream of a pipe, hiding its exit > code, thus don't actually checking that 'git for-each-ref' exits > with error code. > > - They check the error message in a rather roundabout way. > > Ensure that 'git for-each-ref' exits with an error code using the > 'test_must_fail' helper function, and check its error message by > grepping its saved standard error. Yeah, this looks much nicer than the original. > for i in "--perl --shell" "-s --python" "--python --tcl" "--tcl --perl"; do > test_expect_success "more than one quoting style: $i" " > - git for-each-ref $i 2>&1 | (read line && > - case \$line in > - \"error: more than one quoting style\"*) : happy;; > - *) false > - esac) > + test_must_fail git for-each-ref $i 2>err && > + grep '^error: more than one quoting style' err I suspect in the long run this ought to be test_i18ngrep, but since it's not localized yet, it makes sense to stop here with this patch. -Peff
