Re: [PATCH alt-v3] Improve function dir.c:trim_trailing_spaces()

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 01:23:47PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> This passes with your shell set to dash but fails with bash.
> 
> Let's fix it up like so.

Thanks, I should have been more suspicious of the combination of backslashes
and echo during review. :)

> diff --git a/t/t0008-ignores.sh b/t/t0008-ignores.sh
> index 5ef5ad3..39e55a1 100755
> --- a/t/t0008-ignores.sh
> +++ b/t/t0008-ignores.sh
> @@ -816,12 +816,14 @@ test_expect_success NOT_MINGW,NOT_CYGWIN 'correct handling of backslashes' '
>  	>"whitespace/trailing 5 \\ \\ " &&
>  	>"whitespace/trailing 6 \\a\\" &&
>  	>whitespace/untracked &&
> -	echo "whitespace/trailing 1 \\    " >ignore  &&
> -	echo "whitespace/trailing 2 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" >>ignore &&
> -	echo "whitespace/trailing 3 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ " >>ignore &&
> -	echo "whitespace/trailing 4   \\\\\\\\\\\\    " >>ignore &&
> -	echo "whitespace/trailing 5 \\\\\\\\ \\\\\\\\\\\\   " >>ignore &&
> -	echo "whitespace/trailing 6 \\\\\\\\a\\\\\\\\" >>ignore &&
> +	sed -e "s/Z$//" >ignore <<-\EOF &&
> +	whitespace/trailing 1 \    Z
> +	whitespace/trailing 2 \\\\Z
> +	whitespace/trailing 3 \\\\ Z
> +	whitespace/trailing 4   \\\    Z
> +	whitespace/trailing 5 \\ \\\   Z
> +	whitespace/trailing 6 \\a\\Z
> +	EOF

The end result is much more readable, too, IMHO.

-Peff