Re: [PATCH 08/12] t0008: silence error in subshell when using `grep -v`

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

> In t0008 we use `grep -v` in a subshell, but expect that this command
> will sometimes not match anything. This would cause grep(1) to return an
> error code, but given that we don't run with `set -e` we swallow this
> error.
>
> We're about to enable `set -e`. Prepare for this by ignoring any errors.

It is curious that true is explicitly spelled out, unlike the
earlier steps in the series that used ":" in "|| :".

Loss of extra spaces around the statement inside $() is a good
touch.


> Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
> ---
>  t/t0008-ignores.sh | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/t0008-ignores.sh b/t/t0008-ignores.sh
> index e716b5cdfa..1218005b54 100755
> --- a/t/t0008-ignores.sh
> +++ b/t/t0008-ignores.sh
> @@ -122,8 +122,8 @@ test_expect_success_multiple () {
>  	fi
>  	testname="$1" expect_all="$2" code="$3"
>  
> -	expect_verbose=$( echo "$expect_all" | grep -v '^::	' )
> -	expect=$( echo "$expect_verbose" | sed -e 's/.*	//' )
> +	expect_verbose=$(echo "$expect_all" | grep -v '^::	' || true)
> +	expect=$(echo "$expect_verbose" | sed -e 's/.*	//')
>  
>  	test_expect_success $prereq "$testname${no_index_opt:+ with $no_index_opt}" '
>  		expect "$expect" &&