Re: [PATCH 4/5] test: improve rebase -q test

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> A more preferrable alternative may be adding something like this to
>> test-lib.sh and call it from here and elsewhere (there are about 50
>> places that do "test ! -s <filename>"), perhaps?
>>
>>         test_must_be_an_empty_file () {
>>                 if test -s "$1"
>>                 then
>>                         cat "$1"
>>                         false
>>                 fi
>>         }
>
> I generally just use the two-liner
>
> 	>empty &&
> 	test_cmp empty output
>
> directly in cases like this.

That would work, too.