On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 7:38 AM, SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The test 'cvs update (-p)' redirects and checks 'test_cmp's stdout and > even its stderr. The commit introducing this test in 6e8937a084 > (cvsserver: Add test for update -p, 2008-03-27) doesn't discuss why, > in fact its log message only consists of that subject line. Anyway, > weird as it is, it kind of made sense due to the way that test was > structured: [excellent explanation snipped] > Unroll that for loop, so we can check the files' contents the usual > way and rely on 'test_cmp's exit code failing the && chain. Extract > updating a file via CVS and verifying its contents using 'test_cmp' > into a helper function requiring the file's name as parameter to avoid > much of the repetition resulting from unrolling the loop. An alternative approach used elsewhere in the test suite[1] would be simply to 'exit' if test_cmp fails: for i in merge no-lf empty really-empty; do GIT_CONFIG="$git_config" cvs update -p "$i" >$i.out test_cmp $i.out ../$i || exit 1 done && (And, like the existing patch, this removes the need for capturing test_cmp's output into a "failures" file.) [1]: For example, the "setup" test of t2204-add-ignored.sh. > Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > diff --git a/t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh b/t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh > @@ -447,12 +452,10 @@ test_expect_success 'cvs update (-p)' ' > git push gitcvs.git >/dev/null && > cd cvswork && > GIT_CONFIG="$git_config" cvs update && > - rm -f failures && > - for i in merge no-lf empty really-empty; do > - GIT_CONFIG="$git_config" cvs update -p "$i" >$i.out > - test_cmp $i.out ../$i >>failures 2>&1 > - done && > - test -z "$(cat failures)" > + check_cvs_update_p merge && > + check_cvs_update_p no-lf && > + check_cvs_update_p empty && > + check_cvs_update_p really-empty > '