Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] t1502: don't create unused files

["Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 04 2023, Andrei Rybak wrote:

> Three tests in file t1502-rev-parse-parseopt.sh use three redirections
> with invocation of "git rev-parse --parseopt --".  All three tests
> redirect standard output to file "out" and file "spec" to standard
> input.  Two of the tests redirect standard output a second time to file
> "actual", and the third test redirects standard error to file "err".
> These tests check contents of files "actual" and "err", but don't use
> the files named "out" for assertions.  The two tests that redirect to
> standard output twice might also be confusing to the reader.
>
> Don't redirect standard output of "git rev-parse" to file "out" in
> t1502-rev-parse-parseopt.sh to avoid creating unnecessary files.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
> ---
>  t/t1502-rev-parse-parseopt.sh | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/t1502-rev-parse-parseopt.sh b/t/t1502-rev-parse-parseopt.sh
> index de1d48f3ba..dd811b7fb4 100755
> --- a/t/t1502-rev-parse-parseopt.sh
> +++ b/t/t1502-rev-parse-parseopt.sh
> @@ -302,14 +302,14 @@ test_expect_success 'test --parseopt help output: "wrapped" options normal "or:"
>  	|EOF
>  	END_EXPECT
>  
> -	test_must_fail git rev-parse --parseopt -- -h >out <spec >actual &&
> +	test_must_fail git rev-parse --parseopt -- -h <spec >actual &&
>  	test_cmp expect actual
>  '
>  
>  test_expect_success 'test --parseopt invalid opt-spec' '
>  	test_write_lines x -- "=, x" >spec &&
>  	echo "fatal: missing opt-spec before option flags" >expect &&
> -	test_must_fail git rev-parse --parseopt -- >out <spec 2>err &&
> +	test_must_fail git rev-parse --parseopt -- <spec 2>err &&
>  	test_cmp expect err
>  '
>  
> @@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ test_expect_success 'test --parseopt help output: multi-line blurb after empty l
>  	|EOF
>  	END_EXPECT
>  
> -	test_must_fail git rev-parse --parseopt -- -h >out <spec >actual &&
> +	test_must_fail git rev-parse --parseopt -- -h <spec >actual &&
>  	test_cmp expect actual
>  '

Ditto earlier comments: When we fail, we should assert what we emitted
on stdout, surely this should also be a "test_must_be_empty out".

(I didn't test that, but if that fails wes hould be testing whatever it
is that we emit here, surely..)