From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Đoàn Trần Công Danh" <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] test-lib-functions: introduce test_line_count_cmd
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:18:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ab4f29e-987a-c7de-0cca-a64c3bf4be47@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bl8928q9.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
On 13/06/2021 14:28, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 12 2021, Đoàn Trần Công Danh wrote:
>
>> + { test "x$1" = "x!" && test $# = 1 ; }
>> [...]
>> + if test "x$1" = "x!"
>
> We don't use this test idiom in other places, it's OK to just use "$1" =
> "!". I think we're past whatever portability concern made that popular
> in some older shell code in the wild.
Slightly off topic but if anyone is interested in the history of this
test idiom and why it is no longer needed there is a good article at
https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1035
Best Wishes
Phillip
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-13 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-12 4:27 [PATCH 0/4] t: new helper test_line_count_cmd Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-12 4:27 ` [PATCH 1/4] test-lib-functions: introduce test_line_count_cmd Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-13 3:10 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-06-13 7:36 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-13 13:28 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-13 16:37 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-13 18:18 ` Phillip Wood [this message]
2021-06-13 21:42 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-13 23:43 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-06-14 2:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-06-24 23:19 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-13 13:36 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-14 3:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-06-15 15:40 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-12 4:27 ` [PATCH 2/4] t6402: use find(1) builtin to filter instead of grep Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-12 4:27 ` [PATCH 3/4] t6400: use test_line_count_cmd to count # of lines in stdout Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-12 4:33 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-06-13 7:39 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-13 3:39 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-06-13 7:42 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-12 4:27 ` [PATCH 4/4] t6402: " Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-13 3:43 ` Eric Sunshine
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