Thanks for the review! On 22/03/20 11:06 pm, Torsten Bögershausen wrote: >> Commit de26f02db1 (t9001, t9116: avoid pipes, 2020-02-14) noticed that >> when grepping through the output of a command, there is always a >> chance that something could go wrong. > That "something could go wrong" may deserve little bit more explanation > in the commit message. > One thing when using pipes is that we may loose return codes of programs > being part of the pipe. > The other thing is that it is hard to debug, if the test case fails. > Having the "out" file left on disk allows manual inspection, and tracking > down why it failed. Yeah makes sense. I will update the commit message by adding the above details. > Having said this, we can make the test case even easier to debug, and consistant > with other test cases, please see below. > >> So, redirect the output into a file and grep that file. Thus the log >> can be inspected easily if the grep fails. >> >> Signed-off-by: Shanthanu <shanthanu.s.rai9@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> >> In test 'test ascending revision range with --show-commit (sha1)', >> 'out1' variable is used since 'out' variable was already in use. >> >> t/t9116-git-svn-log.sh | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ >> 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/t/t9116-git-svn-log.sh b/t/t9116-git-svn-log.sh >> index 0a9f1ef366..d82aa0fab9 100755 >> --- a/t/t9116-git-svn-log.sh >> +++ b/t/t9116-git-svn-log.sh >> @@ -61,12 +61,14 @@ printf 'r1 \nr2 \nr4 \n' > expected-range-r1-r2-r4 >> >> test_expect_success 'test ascending revision range' " >> git reset --hard origin/trunk && >> - git svn log -r 1:4 | grep '^r[0-9]' | cut -d'|' -f1 | test_cmp expected-range-r1-r2-r4 - >> + git svn log -r 1:4 >out && >> + grep '^r[0-9]' out | cut -d'|' -f1 | test_cmp expected-range-r1-r2-r4 - > That could be written as > grep '^r[0-9]' out | cut -d'|' -f1 >actual && > test_cmp expected-range-r1-r2-r4 actual > > Or something in that style (and similar below). > What do you think ? > >> " >> >> test_expect_success 'test ascending revision range with --show-commit' " >> git reset --hard origin/trunk && >> - git svn log --show-commit -r 1:4 | grep '^r[0-9]' | cut -d'|' -f1 | test_cmp expected-range-r1-r2-r4 - >> + git svn log --show-commit -r 1:4 >out && >> + grep '^r[0-9]' out | cut -d'|' -f1 | test_cmp expected-range-r1-r2-r4 - >> " >> >> test_expect_success 'test ascending revision range with --show-commit (sha1)' " >> @@ -74,7 +76,8 @@ test_expect_success 'test ascending revision range with --show-commit (sha1)' " >> git svn find-rev r2 >>expected-range-r1-r2-r4-sha1 && >> git svn find-rev r4 >>expected-range-r1-r2-r4-sha1 && >> git reset --hard origin/trunk && >> - git svn log --show-commit -r 1:4 | grep '^r[0-9]' | cut -d'|' -f2 >out && >> + git svn log --show-commit -r 1:4 >out1 && >> + grep '^r[0-9]' out1 | cut -d'|' -f2 >out && >> git rev-parse \$(cat out) >actual && >> test_cmp expected-range-r1-r2-r4-sha1 actual >> " >> @@ -83,45 +86,52 @@ printf 'r4 \nr2 \nr1 \n' > expected-range-r4-r2-r1 >> >> test_expect_success 'test descending revision range' " >> git reset --hard origin/trunk && >> - git svn log -r 4:1 | grep '^r[0-9]' | cut -d'|' -f1 | test_cmp expected-range-r4-r2-r1 - >> + git svn log -r 4:1 >out && >> + grep '^r[0-9]' out | cut -d'|' -f1 | test_cmp expected-range-r4-r2-r1 - >> " >> >> printf 'r1 \nr2 \n' > expected-range-r1-r2 >> >> test_expect_success 'test ascending revision range with unreachable revision' " >> git reset --hard origin/trunk && >> - git svn log -r 1:3 | grep '^r[0-9]' | cut -d'|' -f1 | test_cmp expected-range-r1-r2 - >> + git svn log -r 1:3 >out && >> + grep '^r[0-9]' out | cut -d'|' -f1 | test_cmp expected-range-r1-r2 - >> " >> >> printf 'r2 \nr1 \n' > expected-range-r2-r1 >> >> test_expect_success 'test descending revision range with unreachable revision' " >> git reset --hard origin/trunk && >> - git svn log -r 3:1 | grep '^r[0-9]' | cut -d'|' -f1 | test_cmp expected-range-r2-r1 - >> + git svn log -r 3:1 >out && >> + grep '^r[0-9]' out | cut -d'|' -f1 | test_cmp expected-range-r2-r1 - >> " >> >> printf 'r2 \n' > expected-range-r2 >> >> test_expect_success 'test ascending revision range with unreachable upper boundary revision and 1 commit' " >> git reset --hard origin/trunk && >> - git svn log -r 2:3 | grep '^r[0-9]' | cut -d'|' -f1 | test_cmp expected-range-r2 - >> + git svn log -r 2:3 >out && >> + grep '^r[0-9]' out | cut -d'|' -f1 | test_cmp expected-range-r2 - >> " >> >> test_expect_success 'test descending revision range with unreachable upper boundary revision and 1 commit' " >> git reset --hard origin/trunk && >> - git svn log -r 3:2 | grep '^r[0-9]' | cut -d'|' -f1 | test_cmp expected-range-r2 - >> + git svn log -r 3:2 >out && >> + grep '^r[0-9]' out | cut -d'|' -f1 | test_cmp expected-range-r2 - >> " >> >> printf 'r4 \n' > expected-range-r4 >> >> test_expect_success 'test ascending revision range with unreachable lower boundary revision and 1 commit' " >> git reset --hard origin/trunk && >> - git svn log -r 3:4 | grep '^r[0-9]' | cut -d'|' -f1 | test_cmp expected-range-r4 - >> + git svn log -r 3:4 >out && >> + grep '^r[0-9]' out | cut -d'|' -f1 | test_cmp expected-range-r4 - >> " >> >> test_expect_success 'test descending revision range with unreachable lower boundary revision and 1 commit' " >> git reset --hard origin/trunk && >> - git svn log -r 4:3 | grep '^r[0-9]' | cut -d'|' -f1 | test_cmp expected-range-r4 - >> + git svn log -r 4:3 >out && >> + grep '^r[0-9]' out | cut -d'|' -f1 | test_cmp expected-range-r4 - >> " >> >> printf -- '------------------------------------------------------------------------\n' > expected-separator >> @@ -138,12 +148,14 @@ test_expect_success 'test descending revision range with unreachable boundary re >> >> test_expect_success 'test ascending revision range with unreachable boundary revisions and 1 commit' " >> git reset --hard origin/trunk && >> - git svn log -r 3:5 | grep '^r[0-9]' | cut -d'|' -f1 | test_cmp expected-range-r4 - >> + git svn log -r 3:5 >out && >> + grep '^r[0-9]' out | cut -d'|' -f1 | test_cmp expected-range-r4 - >> " >> >> test_expect_success 'test descending revision range with unreachable boundary revisions and 1 commit' " >> git reset --hard origin/trunk && >> - git svn log -r 5:3 | grep '^r[0-9]' | cut -d'|' -f1 | test_cmp expected-range-r4 - >> + git svn log -r 5:3 >out && >> + grep '^r[0-9]' out | cut -d'|' -f1 | test_cmp expected-range-r4 - >> " >> >> test_done >> -- >> 2.26.0.rc2.28.g7fcb965970 >> Yeah, this looks good! I will add these changes in the next patch version.