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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] t4018: drop "debugging" cat from hunk-header tests
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:34:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200116183423.GA3011203@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200116175138.GA691238@coredump.intra.peff.net>

We run a series of hunk-header tests in a loop, and each one does this:

  test_when_finished 'cat actual' &&      # for debugging only

This is pretty pointless. When the test succeeds, we waste time running
a useless cat process. If you're debugging a failure with "-i", then we
won't run the when-finished part at all. So it helps only if you're
running with something like "--verbose-log".

Since we expect the tests to succeed most of the time, a better way to
do this would be a helper that checks the output and dumps "actual" only
when it fails. But it's probably not even worth the effort, as anyone
debugging a failure could just run with "-i" and investigate the
"actual" file themselves.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
Just noticed this when working with t4018 on an unrelated problem.

I could be convinced otherwise on the final paragraph, but I think it
would only be worth it if we added a general test_grep() helper and used
it in more places.

 t/t4018-diff-funcname.sh | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/t/t4018-diff-funcname.sh b/t/t4018-diff-funcname.sh
index c0f4839543..02255a08bf 100755
--- a/t/t4018-diff-funcname.sh
+++ b/t/t4018-diff-funcname.sh
@@ -106,7 +106,6 @@ do
 		result=success
 	fi
 	test_expect_$result "hunk header: $i" "
-		test_when_finished 'cat actual' &&	# for debugging only
 		git diff -U1 $i >actual &&
 		grep '@@ .* @@.*RIGHT' actual
 	"
-- 
2.25.0.318.gee4019ba55

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-16 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-16 17:51 [PATCH] Makefile: use compat regex with SANITIZE=address Jeff King
2020-01-16 18:34 ` Jeff King [this message]
2020-01-16 22:56   ` [PATCH] t4018: drop "debugging" cat from hunk-header tests Jonathan Nieder
2020-01-17 17:37 ` [PATCH] Makefile: use compat regex with SANITIZE=address Junio C Hamano
2020-01-17 17:49   ` Jeff King
2020-01-17 23:39     ` brian m. carlson
2020-01-18  3:34       ` Jeff King

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