On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:31:15PM +0100, Benoit Sigoure wrote: > On Nov 16, 2007, at 10:11 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:04:57PM +0100, Benoit Sigoure wrote: >>> On Nov 16, 2007, at 9:28 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: >>>> test_expect_success \ >>>> 'message in editor has initial comment' ' >>>> GIT_EDITOR=cat git tag -a initial-comment > actual || true && >>>> - test $(sed -n "/^\(#\|\$\)/p" actual | wc -l) -gt 0 >>>> + ( read empty ; >>>> + [ "$empty" ] && exit 1 ; >>> >>> What is this meant to do? Did you mean [ -n "$empty" ] ? >> >> Replacing with [ -n "$empty" ] would not work properly, except if you >> replace the following ; with &&. Does that really make a readability >> difference ? > > I don't get it. As far as I understand, you're trying to check whether > $empty is indeed empty, right? So how is `[ "$empty" ]' meant to work? > [ -n "$empty" ] && exit 1 > > will exit 1 if empty isn't empty. Sorry, I read '-z', not '-n'. [ "$empty" ] and [ -n "$empty" ] are the same thing. Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html