Hi Ævar,

On Tue, 30 Aug 2016, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:51 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:48:19PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> >
> >> >  -failed: $(patsubst trash,,$(patsubst directory.%,%.sh,$(wildcard trash\ directory.t[0-9]*)))
> >> >  +failed:
> >> >  +      @failed=$$(cd '$(TEST_RESULTS_DIRECTORY_SQ)' && \
> >> >  +              grep -l '^failed [1-9]' $$(ls -t *.counts | \
> >> >  +                      sed 'G;h;/^\(t[^.]*\)-[0-9]*\..*\n\1-[0-9]*\./d;P;d') | \
> >> >  +              sed -n 's/-[0-9]*\.counts$$/.sh/p') && \
> >> >  +      test -z "$$failed" || $(MAKE) $$failed
> >> >
> >> >   prove: pre-clean $(TEST_LINT)
> >> >         @echo "*** prove ***"; $(PROVE) --exec '$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)' $(GIT_PROVE_OPTS) $(T) :: $(GIT_TEST_OPTS)
> >>
> >> I don't at all mind this solution to the problem, if it works for that's cool.
> >>
> >> But FWIW something you may have missed is that you can just use
> >> prove(1) for this, which is why I initially patched git.git to support
> >> TAP, so I didn't have to implement stuff like this.
> >
> > Heh. I think each iteration of this patch will be destined to have
> > somebody[1] point Johannes at prove. ;)
> >
> > (But I really do recommend prove if you can use it).
> >
> > -Peff
> >
> > [1] http://public-inbox.org/git/20160630063725.GC15380@sigill.intra.peff.net/
> 
> Sorry about that, I see it's been mentioned already.

Yeah, it is true that prove(1) would be able to help. If it worked
reliably on Windows. (Probably Perl's fault, not prove's.)

> My only excuse is that I don't know how to operate my E-Mail client :)

But we use email to discuss all things Git because it makes everything so
easy and convenient... ;-)

Ciao,
Dscho