A test making use of test_must_fail was failing like this: fatal: ambiguous argument '|': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. when the intent was to verify that a specific string was not found in the output of the git diff command, i.e. that grep returned non-zero. Fix the test to do that. --- t/t7406-submodule-update.sh | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/t/t7406-submodule-update.sh b/t/t7406-submodule-update.sh index f604ef7a72..7be8b59569 100755 --- a/t/t7406-submodule-update.sh +++ b/t/t7406-submodule-update.sh @@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ test_expect_success 'submodule update - update=none in .git/config but --checkou ) && git diff --raw | grep " submodule" && git submodule update --checkout && - test_must_fail git diff --raw \| grep " submodule" && + git diff --raw | test_must_fail grep " submodule" && (cd submodule && test_must_fail compare_head ) && -- 2.18.0.548.gcd835b18f7