Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] t4113: put executable lines to test_expect_success

[Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 3:19 AM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 06 2023, Shuqi Liang wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 5:44 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> >> This creates a "test-patch" file with lines 'a' and 'b' that are
> >> common context lines without any whitespace before them, no?  The
> >> original left the necessary single space in front of them (see the
> >> line removed above).
> >
> > I try to change the code to(left the necessary single space in front
> > of 'a' and 'b':
> >
> > @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
> > - a
> > - b
> > + a
> > + b
> > +c
> > EOF
> >
> > t4113-apply-ending.sh (Wstat: 256 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
> > Result: FAIL.
> >
> > I'm stumped as to why it's still failing. I've tried searching for
> > answers on StackOverflow, but I still can't figure it out.
>
> But this is almost certainly that you're trying to insert leading
> whitespace into a line that's in a <<-EOF here-doc, the "-" part of that
> means that your leading whitespace is being stripped.

Almost. The `<<-` operator actually only strips leading TABs; other
whitespace following the TABs is left intact.