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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: "Phillip Wood" <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Đoàn Trần Công Danh" <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] test-lib-functions: introduce test_line_count_cmd
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2021 16:42:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <60c67bdf5b77e_f569220858@natae.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ab4f29e-987a-c7de-0cca-a64c3bf4be47@gmail.com>

Phillip Wood wrote:
> On 13/06/2021 14:28, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, Jun 12 2021, Đoàn Trần Công Danh wrote:
> > 
> >> +	   { test "x$1" = "x!" && test $# = 1 ; }
> >> [...]
> >> +	if test "x$1" = "x!"
> > 
> > We don't use this test idiom in other places, it's OK to just use "$1" =
> > "!". I think we're past whatever portability concern made that popular
> > in some older shell code in the wild.
> 
> Slightly off topic but if anyone is interested in the history of this 
> test idiom and why it is no longer needed there is a good article at 
> https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1035

Very nice! I often wondered why people did that.

-- 
Felipe Contreras

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-13 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-12  4:27 [PATCH 0/4] t: new helper test_line_count_cmd Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-12  4:27 ` [PATCH 1/4] test-lib-functions: introduce test_line_count_cmd Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-13  3:10   ` Eric Sunshine
2021-06-13  7:36     ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-13 13:28   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-13 16:37     ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-13 18:18     ` Phillip Wood
2021-06-13 21:42       ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2021-06-13 23:43       ` Eric Sunshine
2021-06-14  2:56         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-06-24 23:19         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-13 13:36   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-14  3:01     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-06-15 15:40     ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-12  4:27 ` [PATCH 2/4] t6402: use find(1) builtin to filter instead of grep Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-12  4:27 ` [PATCH 3/4] t6400: use test_line_count_cmd to count # of lines in stdout Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-12  4:33   ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-06-13  7:39     ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-13  3:39   ` Eric Sunshine
2021-06-13  7:42     ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-12  4:27 ` [PATCH 4/4] t6402: " Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-13  3:43   ` Eric Sunshine

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