On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 03:15:50AM -0700, Denton Liu wrote: > Sorry for taking so long to do a reroll, I've been pretty busy this week > and I've only been able to find the time now. No problem, and thank you for sticking with it! > diff --git a/t/t7502-commit-porcelain.sh b/t/t7502-commit-porcelain.sh > index ca4a740da0..f035e4a507 100755 > --- a/t/t7502-commit-porcelain.sh > +++ b/t/t7502-commit-porcelain.sh > @@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ commit_msg_is () { > # Arguments: [<prefix] [<commit message>] [<commit options>] > check_summary_oneline() { > test_tick && > - git commit ${3+"$3"} -m "$2" | head -1 > act && > + git commit ${3+"$3"} -m "$2" >act && > + head -1 <act >tmp && > + mv tmp act && Here you could swap the order of when you write to 'act' and 'tmp', and thus make the 'mv' unnecessary, like this: git commit [...] >tmp && head -1 act >tmp && [...rest of the test...] Note also that 'head' (or 'sed' in later tests) can open its input file on its own, there's no need to redirect its standard input. This is a recurring pattern in patches 1, 4, 8, and 9. > @@ -142,8 +144,8 @@ test_expect_success 'sign off' ' > >positive && > git add positive && > git commit -s -m "thank you" && > - actual=$(git cat-file commit HEAD | sed -ne "s/Signed-off-by: //p") && > - expected=$(git var GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT | sed -e "s/>.*/>/") && > + actual=$(git cat-file commit HEAD >tmp && sed -ne "s/Signed-off-by: //p" <tmp && rm tmp) && > + expected=$(git var GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT >tmp && sed -e "s/>.*/>/" <tmp && rm tmp) && > test "z$actual" = "z$expected" May I ask you to go one step further in restructuring this and the following tests? :) Instead of using 'test' to compare the contents of the $actual and $expected variables, use 'test_cmp' to compare the 'actual' and 'expected' files, something like: git cat-file commit HEAD >tmp && sed -ne "s/Signed-off-by: //p" tmp >actual && git var GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT >tmp && sed -e "s/>.*/>/" >expected && test_cmp expected actual