Hi Junio, Understood. Thanks for the clarification. Best regards, Boxuan Li On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 1:49 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > "LI, BO XUAN" <liboxuan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Thanks for your review! I can understand your point, but I've got a > > quick question: > > > > What if format-patch really breaks and 'am' magically does not break? > > Doesn't that indicate that you are not testing the result of "am" > adequately? > > I am not saying it is *wrong* to split the pipe into two. I am > merely saying that it is borderline Meh, as the primary point of > these two tests are to see how the command downstream of the pipe > behaves and not the upstream one.