Re: [RFC PATCH 05/21] t3404: work around platform-specific behaviour on macOS 10.15

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On Wed, Oct 02, 2024 at 05:43:45PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 11:17 AM Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Two of our tests in t3404 use indented HERE docs where leading tabs on
> > some of the lines are actually relevant. The tabs do get removed though,
> > and we try to fix this up by using sed(1) to replace leading tabs in the
> > actual output, as well. But on macOS 10.15 this doesn't work as expected
> > and we somehow keep the tabs around in the actual output.
> 
> I presume this nebulous explanation is due to the fact that the reason
> why macOS 10.15 exhibits this anomalous behavior is not yet known?

Yeah, I didn't thoroughly investigate this one but just wanted to have
it fixed. I was hitting so many platform-dependent issues left and right
that at some point I started to feel a bit tired.

> > Work around this issue by retaining the tabs.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx>
> > ---
> > diff --git a/t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh b/t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh
> > @@ -1917,18 +1917,17 @@ test_expect_success '--update-refs updates refs correctly' '
> > -       cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
> > -       Successfully rebased and updated refs/heads/update-refs.
> > -       Updated the following refs with --update-refs:
> > -               refs/heads/first
> > -               refs/heads/no-conflict-branch
> > -               refs/heads/second
> > -               refs/heads/third
> > -       EOF
> > +       cat >expect <<\EOF &&
> > +Successfully rebased and updated refs/heads/update-refs.
> > +Updated the following refs with --update-refs:
> > +       refs/heads/first
> > +       refs/heads/no-conflict-branch
> > +       refs/heads/second
> > +       refs/heads/third
> > +EOF
> 
> Although this works, the problem with this change (and its sibling
> later in the patch) is that someday someone is going to come along
> (say, for instance, a GSoC applicant doing a microproject) who submits
> a patch to (re-)"modernize" this test by using `<<-` to (re-)indent
> the heredoc body. A better approach would probably be to retain `<<-`
> and use q_to_tab():
> 
>     q_to_tab >expect <<-\EOF &&
>     Qrefs/heads/first
>     Q...
>     Qrefs/heads/third
>     EOF

Cute! Didn't know we even had this helper.

Patrick




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