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From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Mehul Jain <mehul.jain2029@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>,
	Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] t5520: reduce commom lines of code
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 08:46:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5700BC52.1040404@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+DCAeT4rF2dqL9iU9WYQJuxiSYstY9AaT2Hc7OvhmFNyKEgAg@mail.gmail.com>

Am 03.04.2016 um 08:24 schrieb Mehul Jain:
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 12:20 AM, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> wrote:
>> Am 02.04.2016 um 19:58 schrieb Mehul Jain:
>>> +for i in --autostash --no-autostash
>>> +do
>>> +       test_expect_success "pull $i (without --rebase) is illegal" '
>>> +               test_must_fail git pull $i . copy 2>err &&
>>> +               test_i18ngrep "only valid with --rebase" err
>>> +       '
>>> +done
>>
>>
>> Hm. If the implementation of test_expect_success uses the variable, too, its
>> value is lost when the test snippet runs. Fortunately, it does not.
>>
>> You can make this code a bit more robust by using double-quotes around the
>> test code so that $i is expanded before test_expect_success is evaluated.
>
> I think that the current format is preferred over the one you suggest.
> Here[1] Junio
> has given a descriptive explanation.
>
> [1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/283350/focus=284769

Junio has a point there, of course.

In this light, I suggest that you use a more verbose variable name.

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-03  6:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-02 17:58 [PATCH v2 0/7] t5520: tests for --[no-]autostash option Mehul Jain
2016-04-02 17:58 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] t5520: use consistent capitalization in test titles Mehul Jain
2016-04-02 17:58 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] t5520: ensure consistent test conditions Mehul Jain
2016-04-02 17:58 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] t5520: use better test to check stderr output Mehul Jain
2016-04-02 17:58 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] t5520: factor out common code Mehul Jain
2016-04-03 20:03   ` Eric Sunshine
2016-04-02 17:58 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] " Mehul Jain
2016-04-03 20:05   ` Eric Sunshine
2016-04-02 17:58 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] t5520: reduce commom lines of code Mehul Jain
2016-04-02 18:50   ` Johannes Sixt
2016-04-03  6:24     ` Mehul Jain
2016-04-03  6:46       ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2016-04-02 17:58 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] t5520: test --[no-]autostash with pull.rebase=true Mehul Jain
2016-04-03 20:11   ` Eric Sunshine
2016-04-03  8:47 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] t5520: reduce commom lines of code Mehul Jain
2016-04-03 20:17 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] t5520: tests for --[no-]autostash option Eric Sunshine
2016-04-04  7:31 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-04-04 16:58   ` Mehul Jain
2016-04-04 17:00   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-04 17:07     ` Mehul Jain

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