On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 1:03 PM shubham verma <shubhunic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > t7001: use ': >' rather than 'touch' > > Use `>` rather than `touch` to create an empty file when the > timestamp isn't relevant to the test. There is an inconsistency here. In the subject you say ": >" but in the body just ">". A couple more comments below... > Signed-off-by: shubham verma <shubhunic@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > diff --git a/t/t7001-mv.sh b/t/t7001-mv.sh > @@ -47,14 +47,14 @@ test_expect_success 'checking -k on non-existing file' ' > test_expect_success 'checking -k on untracked file' ' > - touch untracked1 && > + : > untracked1 && In patch [5/11] you dropped whitespace following the redirection operator, however, this patch introduces several new cases of unwanted whitespace. Checking "master", I see that there are 209 instances of `: >` in tests, but 1023 instances of `>`, which suggests that we should stick with plain `>` rather than `: >` in this patch.