SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. That's nice attention to the detail ;-)