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From: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: GIT Mailing-list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] t5556: replace test_i18ngrep with a simple grep
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 01:58:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <69c7dc21-fb52-5982-f7d8-04518d06db6c@ramsayjones.plus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq3726t11d.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>



On 12/02/18 20:18, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> writes:
> 
>> Attempting to grep the output of test_i18ngrep will not work under a
>> poison build, since the output is (almost) guaranteed not to have the
>> string you are looking for. In this case, the output of test_i18ngrep
>> is further filtered by a simple piplined grep to exclude an '... remote
>> end hung up unexpectedly' warning message. Use a regular 'grep -E' to
>> replace the call to test_i18ngrep in the filter pipeline.
>> Also, remove a useless invocation of 'sort' as the final element of the
>> pipeline.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
>> ---
>>  t/t5536-fetch-conflicts.sh | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/t/t5536-fetch-conflicts.sh b/t/t5536-fetch-conflicts.sh
>> index 2e42cf331..38381df5e 100755
>> --- a/t/t5536-fetch-conflicts.sh
>> +++ b/t/t5536-fetch-conflicts.sh
>> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ verify_stderr () {
>>  	cat >expected &&
>>  	# We're not interested in the error
>>  	# "fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly":
>> -	test_i18ngrep -E '^(fatal|warning):' <error | grep -v 'hung up' >actual | sort &&
>> +	grep -E '^(fatal|warning):' <error | grep -v 'hung up' >actual &&
>>  	test_i18ncmp expected actual
> 
> OK, but not quite OK.

:-D

> Two grep invocations will not leave anything useful in 'actual'
> under poison build, and is almost guaranteed that 'expected' would
> not match, but that is perfectly OK because the final comparison is
> done.

"...is done with i18ncmp.", indeed.

The contents of 'actual' would look like:

  warning: # GETTEXT POISON #
  warning: # GETTEXT POISON #

or

  fatal: # GETTEXT POISON #

... depending on which test we are looking at.

> However, it is brittle to rely on the latter "grep -v" to exit with
> status 0 for the &&-chain to work.  The original was most likely
> masked by the "| sort" exiting with 0 status all the time ;-)

I must admit that I didn't think about the effect of the useless
"| sort" on the exit status!  What I saw was: a process that
received no input, sorted nothing and produced no output - pretty
much the definition of useless! ;-)

Also, the "| grep -v" part does remove the "... hung up ..."
message (when present in the input), since that message has not
been i18n-ed. I thought this was deliberate - but maybe not.
(also, so long a _some_ output gets passed on by that grep, the
exit status will be 0).

> There needs an explanation why this commit thinks the invocation of
> "sort" useless.

You mean, other than the fact that it is? ;-)

>                   I do not particularly think "suppressing a
> not-found non-zero exit from 'grep'" is a useful thing, but are we
> committed to show the two warnings seen in the last test in this
> file to always in the shown order (i.e. the same order as the
> refspecs are given to us)?  If not, then "sort" does serve a
> purpose.  Note that I do not think we want to be able to reorder the
> warning messages in future versions of Git for that last case, so
> making that explicit may be a good justification.

I did not look back at the history of this test, so I can't say
if that was the original _intent_ of the "| sort" part of the
pipeline. However, it is not serving any purpose now.

>     The "sort" as the last step in the pipeline makes sure that we
>     do not have to guarantee the order in which we give the two
>     warning messages from the last test in this script, but
>     processing the refspecs in the same order as they are given on
>     the command line and warning against them as we discover
>     problems is a property we would rather want to keep, so drop it
>     to make sure that we would catch regression when we accidentally
>     change the order in which these messages are given.
> 
> or something like that, perhaps.

Hmm, so do you want anything other than a commit message update?

ATB,
Ramsay Jones



  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-13  1:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-12  0:18 [PATCH 2/2] t5556: replace test_i18ngrep with a simple grep Ramsay Jones
2018-02-12 20:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-12 21:12   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-13  1:58   ` Ramsay Jones [this message]
2018-02-13  7:51     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-13 10:04       ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-13 17:08         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-13 17:26           ` Jeff King
2018-02-13 18:10             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-27 20:16               ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-27 22:05                 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-27 23:47                   ` Ramsay Jones
2018-02-28  0:42                     ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-28 15:33                       ` Ramsay Jones
2018-02-28 16:18                         ` Junio C Hamano

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