Hi Emily, On Wed, 3 Jul 2019, Emily Shaffer wrote: > > > + up="$HTTPD_URL"/smart/atomic-branches.git && > > > + test_commit atomic1 && > > > + test_commit atomic2 && > > > + git push "$up" master && > > > > It would be more succinct to do a `git clone --bare . "$d"` here, instead > > of a `git init --bare` and a `git push` no? > > I'm not sure I would say "more succinct." This leaves the test with the > same number of lines, No, it does not, as `git clone --bare . "$d"` does _both_ the initializing and the object transfer. It only saves one line, of course, but do keep in mind that anybody running into any kind of regression with your test case needs to understand what it does. And from experience I can tell you that reading any test case longer than 5 lines is quite annoying when you actually only care about fixing the regression, and not so much about the wonderful story the test case tells. So in a sense, I guess I would even suggest to move as much of the setup for your test cases outside, preferably into an initial `setup` test case that initializes the minimal scenario required by the regression test case. Thanks, Dscho
