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. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> --- t/t7406-submodule-update.sh | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/t/t7406-submodule-update.sh b/t/t7406-submodule-update.sh index f604ef7a72..ccdc2f9039 100755 --- a/t/t7406-submodule-update.sh +++ b/t/t7406-submodule-update.sh @@ -599,7 +599,8 @@ 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 >out && + ! grep " submodule" out && (cd submodule && test_must_fail compare_head ) && -- 2.18.0.556.g1604670984