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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>, Beat Bolli <dev+git@drbeat.li>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t3900: add some more quotes
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:31:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqy3l5z9hx.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180110195323.GA26186@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:53:23 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Yeah. One of the reasons for both of the errors in this thread is the
> nested double-quoting. Using single quotes is awkward because we're
> already using them to delimit the whole snippet.  I've often wondered if
> our tests would be more readable taking the snippet over stdin.
> Something like:
> +test_expect_success 'UTF-8 invalid characters refused' - <<\EOT
> +	test_when_finished 'rm -f "$HOME/stderr $HOME/invalid"' &&
> ...
> -'
> +EOT
> 
> +# Read from stdin into the variable given in $1.
> +test_read_to_eof () {
> +	# Bash's "read" is sufficiently flexible that we can skip the extra
> +	# process.
> +	if test -n "$BASH_VERSION"
> +	then
> +		# 64k should be enough for anyone...
> +		read -N 65536 -r "$1"
> +	else
> +		# command substitution eats trailing whitespace, so we add
> +		# and then remove a non-whitespace character.
> +		eval "$1=\$(cat; printf x)"
> +		eval "$1=\${$1%x}"
> +	fi
> +}

Yuck.  Hacky but nice.

I think this will make it easier to read but I suspect here text
would use temporary files and may slow things down a bit?  I do not
know if it is even measurable, though.

> +
>  test_expect_failure () {
>  	test_start_
>  	test "$#" = 3 && { test_prereq=$1; shift; } || test_prereq=
>  	test "$#" = 2 ||
>  	error "bug in the test script: not 2 or 3 parameters to test-expect-failure"
> +	if test "$2" = "-"
> +	then
> +		test_read_to_eof test_block
> +		set -- "$1" "$test_block"
> +	fi
>  	test_verify_prereq
>  	export test_prereq
>  	if ! test_skip "$@"
> @@ -416,6 +437,11 @@ test_expect_success () {
>  	test "$#" = 3 && { test_prereq=$1; shift; } || test_prereq=
>  	test "$#" = 2 ||
>  	error "bug in the test script: not 2 or 3 parameters to test-expect-success"
> +	if test "$2" = "-"
> +	then
> +		test_read_to_eof test_block
> +		set -- "$1" "$test_block"
> +	fi
>  	test_verify_prereq
>  	export test_prereq
>  	if ! test_skip "$@"

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-10 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-10  9:58 [PATCH] t3900: add some more quotes Beat Bolli
2018-01-10 10:33 ` Jeff King
2018-01-10 17:21   ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-01-10 17:44 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-01-10 22:38   ` [PATCH v2] " Beat Bolli
2018-01-10 23:09     ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-01-10 23:09     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-10 19:02 ` [PATCH] " Johannes Sixt
2018-01-10 19:43   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-10 19:53   ` Jeff King
2018-01-10 21:31     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2018-01-11  9:38       ` Jeff King
2018-01-11 11:39     ` read test snippet from stdin [was: [PATCH] t3900: add some more quotes] SZEDER Gábor
2018-01-11 12:11       ` Jeff King

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