On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 4:11 AM Jonathan Chang <ttjtftx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Chang <ttjtftx@xxxxxxxxx> > > diff --git a/t/t0000-basic.sh b/t/t0000-basic.sh > @@ -1136,8 +1136,8 @@ test_expect_success 'git commit-tree omits duplicated parent in a commit' ' > - numparent=$(sed -n -e "s/^parent //p" -e "/^author /q" actual | wc -l) && > - test $numparent = 1 > + sed -n -e "s/^parent //p" -e "/^author /q" actual | wc -l >numparent && > + test_line_count = 1 numparent This transformation makes no sense. The output of 'sed' is fed to 'wc -l' whose output is redirected to file "numparent", which means that the output file will end up containing a single line no matter how many "parent" lines are matched in the input. Since test_line_count() checks the number of lines in the named file, the test will succeed unconditionally (which makes for a pretty poor test). Also, the filename "numparent" doesn't do a good job of representing what the file is expected to contain. A better name might be "parents". So, a more correct transformation would be: sed -n -e "s/^parent //p" -e "/^author /q" actual >parents && test_line_count = 1 parents > @@ -1146,8 +1146,8 @@ test_expect_success 'update-index D/F conflict' ' > - numpath0=$(wc -l <actual) && > - test $numpath0 = 1 > + wc -l <actual >numpath0 && > + test_line_count = 1 numpath0 Same comment about bogus transformation. The entire sequence should collapse to a single line: test_line_count = 1 actual