On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 2:19 AM Johannes Sixt <j...@kdbg.org> wrote:
> Am 19.06.19 um 01:12 schrieb Eric Sunshine:
> > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 8:24 AM Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
> > <gitgitgad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>         printf ".git\nfatal: Needed a single revision\n" >expect &&
> >> -       test_cmp expect output.txt
> >> +       sort <output.txt >output.sorted &&
> >> +       test_cmp expect output.sorted
> >
> > It was quite surprising to see this sorting only 'output' but not
> > 'expect'. I see now that 'output' is already "sorted" (in that sense),
> > but it feels fragile. More robust would be to sort 'expect' as well:
> >
> >     printf ".git\nfatal: Needed a single revision\n" | sort >expect &&
>
> Following Dscho's recent objection elsewhere that tests tend to check
> for much more than regressions, wouldn't it be logical to write these as
>
>         grep -F .git" output.txt &&
>         test_i18n_grep "Needed a single rev" output.txt
>
> without an 'expect' file at all?

I considered suggesting that, as well, as being more obvious and less
fragile (with the exception that "Needed a single rev" isn't currently
localizable in builtin/rev-parse.c, so plain 'grep' instead of
'test_i18n_grep').

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