Am Di., 29. Jan. 2019 um 18:47 Uhr schrieb Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>: > > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > The usual style is to put the whole snippet into single-quotes, and then > > double-quote as appropriate within it. Like: > > > > test_expect_failure 'describe --dirty with --work-tree' ' > > ( > > cd "$TEST_DIRECTORY" && > > git --git-dir "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/.git" ...etc > > > > Those variables will be expanded when test_expect_failure eval's the > > snippet. > > Good. Ok, thanks. I’ll change this in the next reroll. > > >> + grep 'A-\d\+-g[0-9a-f]\+' '$TRASH_DIRECTORY/out' > > > > Using "\d" isn't portable. > > True, but not just \d. I think using \ before special characters to > force an otherwise basic regular expression to be ERE (i.e. \+ at > the end) is a GNUism. > I guess I’ll use the even broader but apparently more portable A-*[0-9a-f] then. It’s used in the other checks, so this should be OK? > > This regex is pretty broad. What are we checking here? If I understand > > the previous discussion, we just care that it doesn't have "dirty" in > > it, right? I don't think this regex does that, because it doesn't anchor > > the end of string. > > > > If that's indeed what we're checking, then an easier check is perhaps: > > > > ! grep dirty ... > > Good. This was copied and pasted from the existing check for describe with a clean working tree. So this should be changed, too.