On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 6:59 PM Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Teach show_object_with_name() to avoid writing a space before a name > which is empty. Also teach tests for rev-list --objects --filter to not > require a space between the object ID and name. > [...] > Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Not sure if making the whitespace optional is the right solution for the > test, although I couldn't come up with a cleaner approach. Maybe > something like this would be better, even though handling it in the > regex is shorter? > > if [[ -z "$name" ]] then In Git, we avoid Bash-isms. Just use 'test'. And, style is to place 'then' on its own line. if test -z "$name" then > diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c > @@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ void show_object_with_name(FILE *out, struct object *obj, const char *name) > { > - fprintf(out, "%s ", oid_to_hex(&obj->oid)); > + fprintf(out, "%s%s", oid_to_hex(&obj->oid), > + strcmp(name, "") == 0 ? "" : " "); > for (p = name; *p && *p != '\n'; p++) > fputc(*p, out); > fputc('\n', out); It's subjective, but this starts to be a bit too noisy and unreadable. An alternative: fputs(oid_to_hex(...), out); if (*name) putc(' ', out); > diff --git a/t/t6112-rev-list-filters-objects.sh b/t/t6112-rev-list-filters-objects.sh > @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ expect_has () { > hash=$(git -C r3 rev-parse $commit:$name) && > - grep "^$hash $name$" actual > + grep "^$hash \?$name$" actual This would be the first use of \? with 'grep' in the test suite. I would worry about portability. Your suggestion earlier to tailor 'grep' invocation based upon whether $name is empty would be safer.