Re: [PATCH 1/2] revert: refactor code that prints success or failure message

[Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>]

Hi,

On Wednesday 14 July 2010 00:16:20 Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Christian Couder wrote:
> > I don't know about sh -x but there is this code in test-lib.sh to warn
> > about GIT_TRACE use:
> > 
> > case $(echo $GIT_TRACE |tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]") in
> > 
> > 	1|2|true)
> > 	
> > 		echo "* warning: Some tests will not work if GIT_TRACE" \
> > 		
> > 			"is set as to trace on STDERR ! *"
> > 		
> > 		echo "* warning: Please set GIT_TRACE to something" \
> > 		
> > 			"other than 1, 2 or true ! *"
> > 		
> > 		;;
> > 
> > esac
> 
> Oh!  I just remembered
> 
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/146767
> 
> I guess the answer is we half-support it.  Maybe a test_cmp_err()
> helper to strip out xtrace[1] and GIT_TRACE[2] output is needed.

I don't understand the result of the above thread but when I try "bash -x 
t3508-cherry-pick-many-commits.sh" it works on my machine.
So I didn't change the tests.

> >> Summary: I was misled by the commit message.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Ok, I will improve it.
> 
> Thanks, and sorry for the unfocused review.

No problem it's still better than no review :-)

Thanks,
Christian.