On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 6:05 PM Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Swapping out the "printf >expect" for a here-doc might make it a bit
> more readable. I used printf because of the tab handling, but:
>
> tab=$(printf "\t")
> cat >expect <<-EOF
> ref: ${dst}${tab}HEAD
> ${oid}${tab}HEAD
> EOF
>
> isn't too bad.
Or just use q_to_tab():
q_to_tab >expect <<-EOF
ref: ${dst}QHEAD
${oid}QHEAD
EOF
However, the typical use-case for q_to_tab() is when we need a leading
or trailing TAB character. When TAB is embedded within the line, we
often just use a literal TAB character; indeed, many tests in the
suite do exactly that, so that would be an even simpler option.
