Josh Steadmon <steadmon@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 2020.01.07 19:31, Kyle Meyer wrote: [...] >> +test_expect_success 'submodule add relays add --dry-run stderr' ' >> + test_when_finished "rm -rf addtest/.git/index.lock" && >> + ( >> + cd addtest && >> + : >.git/index.lock && [...] > I had to look up what ":" does, but it looks like it's reasonably widely > used in other tests so that seems fine. However, it looks like you don't > even need the : command and can just ">.git/index.lock" by itself (see > the "setup - initial commit" test case in this file for an example). Indeed. I spot some recent commits that added new instances of ": >", so I suspect it's not strongly discouraged in this project, but I'm not particularly attached to the unneeded colon :> > Looks good to me. Thanks for the patch! Thanks for the review!