Re: [PATCH v4] format-patch: introduce format.outputDirectory configuration

[Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 10:55 PM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net> wrote:
>> diff --git a/t/t4014-format-patch.sh b/t/t4014-format-patch.sh
>> @@ -1445,4 +1445,20 @@ test_expect_success 'From line has expected format' '
>> +test_expect_success 'format-patch format.outputDirectory option' '
>> +       test_config format.outputDirectory patches &&
>> +       rm -fr patches &&
>> +       git format-patch master..side &&
>> +       ls patches >actual &&
>> +       test_line_count = 3 actual
>> +'
>
> Now that you've moved the new tests to the bottom of the script, this
> test fails. This is because, at this point, there are 18 commits in
> the range 'master..side', not 3 as when the test was at the top of the
> script. You could change the 3 to an 18, however, that would be
> fragile: if someone inserts or modifies tests above this one, then a
> hard-coded 18 might become stale. One possible fix would be:
>
>     test $(git rev-list master..side | wc -l) -eq $(ls patches)

That would be $(ls patches | wc -l), of course.