On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 10:43:51AM +0200, Bert Wesarg wrote: > diff --git a/t/t4014-format-patch.sh b/t/t4014-format-patch.sh > index 83f52614d3..2f2cd6fea6 100755 > --- a/t/t4014-format-patch.sh > +++ b/t/t4014-format-patch.sh > @@ -1606,6 +1606,26 @@ test_expect_success 'From line has expected format' ' > test_cmp from filtered > ' > > +test_expect_success 'format-patch -o with no leading directories' ' > + rm -fr patches && > + git format-patch -o patches master..side && > + git rev-list master..side >list && > + test_line_count = $(ls patches | wc -l) list This is sort of a nit... So, these tests check that 'git rev-list ...' lists as many commits as the number of files created by 'git format-patch'. While it doesn't affect the tests' correctness, this is subtly different from checking that 'git format-patch' created as many files as the number of commits listed by 'git rev-list'. Consider how the tests' output would look like on failure: 'test_line_count' shows an error message that includes the content of the file to be checked, which in this case would consist of a bunch of commit object ids: test_line_count: line count for list != 3 f7af51d27933a90554b6e9212a7e5d4ad1c74569 bd89fce9f5096eb5cad67c342b40818b7e3ce9e4 On one hand, these object ids won't mean much to anyone who might have to debug such a test failure in the future, and on the other these tests are about 'git format-patch', not about 'git rev-list'. If the check were written like this: count=$(git rev-list --count master..side) && ls patches >list && test_line_count = $count list then the error message on failure would look something like this: test_line_count: line count for list != 3 0001-first.patch 0002-second.patch which, I think, would be more useful. > +' > + > +test_expect_success 'format-patch -o with leading existing directories' ' > + git format-patch -o patches/side master..side && > + git rev-list master..side >list && > + test_line_count = $(ls patches/side | wc -l) list > +' > + > +test_expect_success 'format-patch -o with leading non-existing directories' ' > + rm -fr patches && > + git format-patch -o patches/side master..side && > + git rev-list master..side >list && > + test_line_count = $(ls patches/side | wc -l) list > +' > + > test_expect_success 'format-patch format.outputDirectory option' ' > test_config format.outputDirectory patches && > rm -fr patches && > -- > 2.23.0.11.g242cf7f110 >