On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 08:56:58AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> SZEDER Gábor <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 03:41:54PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> >> There
> >> will not be a need for test_string_must_be_empty() just like there's
> >> no need for test_string_cmp().
> >
> > Actually, if there were a test_string_cmp(), that would be the test
> > helper function I used most often.
>
> Hmm, there indeed are quite a many "At this point, the variable's
> value must be this" in the test scripts. With things like this:
>
> t/t0002-gitfile.sh: test "$SHA" = "$(git rev-list HEAD)"
>
> we can go to the trash directory upon seeing a failure to run the
> command used on the RHS, but the value in $SHA is cumbersome to find
> out (either running it under sh -x or insert an extra echo before
> it), so such a helper function may be useful.
>
> Do you really need a general comparison ("does A sort before B") or
> just equality? If the latter, test_string_equal (or even
> string_equal) might be a better name for it.
Yeah, I need only equality. Or at least it would be nice to have.
My main motivation is that, like in your example, in the bash prompt
tests I only have to check a single line of output, but because of
debuggability I always did:
echo "(master)" >expected
__git_ps1 >actual
test_cmp expected actual
With such a helper function this could be reduced to a single line:
test_string_equal "(master)" "$(__git_ps1)"
without loss of functionality or debuggability, because in case of a
failure it would output something like this (bikesheddable, of
course):
Error:
expected: "(master)"
got: "((deadbeef...))"
And perhaps with a description as an optional third argument to help
identify the failed check if multiple such checks are done in a single
test, e.g. the test_rev_parse() helper in t/t1501-worktree.sh, 'setup:
helper for testing rev-parse', which could be shortened as:
test_string_equal "$1" "$(git rev-parse --is-bare-repository)" "bare"
test_string_equal "$2" "$(git rev-parse --is-inside-git-dir)" "gitdir"
test_string_equal "$3" "$(git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree)" "worktree"
and if something goes wrong we'd get:
Error: worktree
expected: "true"
got: "false"
Perhaps I could find some time in the days ahead to give it a go.
Gábor
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