On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 02:57:11PM -0400, Derrick Stolee wrote: > > diff --git a/t/t5606-clone-options.sh b/t/t5606-clone-options.sh > > index e69427f881..d20a78f84b 100755 > > --- a/t/t5606-clone-options.sh > > +++ b/t/t5606-clone-options.sh > > @@ -19,6 +19,50 @@ test_expect_success 'clone -o' ' > > > > ' > > > > +test_expect_success 'disallows --bare with --origin' ' > > + > > + test_expect_code 128 git clone -o foo --bare parent clone-bare-o 2>err && > > + test_debug "cat err" && > > + test_i18ngrep "\-\-bare and --origin foo options are incompatible" err > > + > > +' > > It seems that all of your tests have an extraneous newline > at the end. And the beginning. :) It's matching the surrounding test, which are written in an older inconsistent style. I think it's OK to match them, but cleaning them would be welcome, too. While I'm looking at this hunk, two other things: - do we really care about code 128, or just failure? test_must_fail might be a better choice - I didn't even know we had test_debug. ;) The last time somebody added a call to it was in 2012. I think it's being used as intended here, but I'm not sure that the clutter to the test is worth it (we have other tools like "-i" to stop at the right spot and let you inspect the broken state). - the backslash escapes confused me for a moment. I guess they are trying to hide the dashes from grep's option parser. That's OK, though I'd have probably just started with "bare" since we're matching a substring anyway. I think you could also use "-e" with test_i18ngrep. -Peff