On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 07:37:06PM -0700, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón wrote: > 9af0b8dbe2 (t0000-basic: more commit-tree tests., 2006-04-26) adds > tets for commit-tree that mask the return exit from git as described s/tets/tests > diff --git a/t/t0000-basic.sh b/t/t0000-basic.sh > index cb87768513..545ff5af13 100755 > --- a/t/t0000-basic.sh > +++ b/t/t0000-basic.sh > @@ -1270,26 +1270,31 @@ test_expect_success 'no diff after checkout and git update-index --refresh' ' > P=$(test_oid root) > > test_expect_success 'git commit-tree records the correct tree in a commit' ' > - commit0=$(echo NO | git commit-tree $P) && > - tree=$(git show --pretty=raw $commit0 | > - sed -n -e "s/^tree //p" -e "/^author /q") && > + echo NO | git commit-tree $P >out && > + commit0=$(cat out) && > + git show --pretty=raw $commit0 >out && > + tree=$(cat out | sed -n -e "s/^tree //p" -e "/^author /q") && In this and the below tests which had a similar transformation, the first invocation does not mask its error, since it's on the right-hand side of a pipe. But piping "git show" to sed will mask the exit code of the former. So that makes sense. But I would like to see us avoid an unnecessary cat-into-pipe and instead redirect out into sed, like "sed -n -e ... <out". Thanks, Taylor