Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2010, #01; Wed, 13)

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

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 04:46, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>>  - test-lib: make test_expect_code a test command
>>
>> Somewhat rerolled, but the largest one among the series was Nacked by a
>> few people and needs to be rerolled again.
>
> Why did you amend this to use this sed trick:
>
>     +sed -e 's/Z$//' >expect <<\EOF &&
>     +not ok - 1 tests clean up even after a failure
>     +#      Z
>     +#          touch clean-after-failure &&
>     +#          test_when_finished rm clean-after-failure &&
>     +#          (exit 1)
>     +#      Z
>     +not ok - 2 failure to clean up causes the test to fail
>     +#      Z
>     +#          test_when_finished \"(exit 2)\"
>     +#      Z
>
> Is it just to keep it diff --check clean?

Yes and files with trailing whitespaces are hard to understand in general
when reading, even outside the "should I apply that patch?" contenxt.

> Anyway if we munge the output like this the output of test_cmp will be
> more confusing when it fails, because it'll be diff(1)-ing something
> that the test-lib would never emit.

Hmm, why?  "expect" has trailing whitespaces on lines that end with Z,
i.e. what the original patch wanted to place in.