Hi, On Wed, 12 Jun 2019, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 09:14:40PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > On Tue, 11 Jun 2019, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 01:36:16PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > SZEDER Gábor writes: > > > > > > > > > -Rebasing (1/4)QRebasing (2/4)QRebasing (3/4)QRebasing (4/4)QSuccessfully rebased and updated refs/heads/missing-commit. > > > > > +Rebasing (1/4)QRebasing (2/4)QRebasing (3/4)QRebasing (4/4)QQ QSuccessfully rebased and updated refs/heads/missing-commit. > > > > > EOF > > > > > > > > Yuck, > > > > > > Oh yeah... > > > > > > >... but I do not see how else/better this test can be written > > > > myself, which makes it a double-yuck X-< > > > > > > Perhaps hiding those spaces behind a helper variable e.g. > > > 'dump_term_clear_line=Q<80-spaces>Q' and embedding that in the here > > > docs specifying the expected output in these three tests could make it > > > ever so slightly less yuck... > > > > > > > Are we forcing out test to operate under dumb terminal mode and with > > > > a known number of columns? > > > > > > 'test-lib.sh' sets TERM=dumb relatively early on, and in these tests > > > we don't use 'test_terminal' to run 'git rebase', so... yeah. And > > > term_columns() defaults to 80. > > > > > > However, if the terminal were smart, then we would have to deal with > > > ANSI escape suddenly popping up... > > > > And I fear that is *exactly* what makes > > https://dev.azure.com/gitgitgadget/git/_build/results?buildId=10539&view=ms.vss-test-web.build-test-results-tab > > fail... > > Isn't it a sign of a problem in that Windows test environment that > it mistakenly believes that the terminal is smart, even though it has > been explicitly set to dumb? Yes, it looks like some odd decision there. But the more important take-away from my mail is that we do not even want those test cases to depend on the vagaries of the current progress machinery. Ciao, Dscho