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From: Abhradeep Chakraborty <chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Abhradeep Chakraborty <chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>,
	Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test-lib-functions: fix test_subcommand_inexact
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 23:40:56 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220324181056.53824-1-chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmthgu3e6.fsf@gitster.g>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> The result of doing #1 is still "inexact" but at that point it is
> unclear if we are being way too inexact to be useful.  If the
> looseness bothers us too much, we may decide that #1 is not worth
> doing.  But obviously the looseness did not bother us that much
> until last week, so probably an obvious #3, do nothing, letting the
> sleeping dog lie, might be what we want to do?

Personally, I would prefer #3 i.e. do nothing (even in the future; unless
it is removed all together). I also think that the current behaviour is not
"too inexact". Rather it would be too strict for `test_subcommand_inexact`
if we remove the ".*" thing here.

Inexact means that the line needs not to be exactly same - there may be
some words in between the desired words (in this case, any flags that come
between the desired sub-commands). The current behaviour (i.e. 
`local expr=$(printf '"%s".*' "$@")`) is justifying the name of the function.
Replacing ".*" with "," will therefore not work as the name of the function
suggests - it will rather work as `test_subcommand_starts_with`.

Only the `expr=${expr%,}.*" line needs to be changed, I think.

Thanks :)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-03-24 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-21 20:34 [PATCH] test-lib-functions: fix test_subcommand_inexact Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-03-22 15:17 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-03-23 14:53   ` Junio C Hamano
2022-03-23 14:55     ` Derrick Stolee
2022-03-23 21:45       ` Taylor Blau
2022-03-23 23:10         ` Junio C Hamano
2022-03-24 15:42           ` Derrick Stolee
2022-03-24 16:02             ` Taylor Blau
2022-03-24 16:39               ` Derrick Stolee
2022-03-24 16:38             ` Junio C Hamano
2022-03-24 18:10     ` Abhradeep Chakraborty [this message]
2022-03-25  0:33       ` Junio C Hamano
2022-03-25  8:13         ` Abhradeep Chakraborty
2022-03-24 18:34 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] " Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-03-24 18:34   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] t7700: check post-condition in kept-pack test Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-03-24 18:58     ` Taylor Blau
2022-03-25 13:55       ` Derrick Stolee
2022-03-25 17:07     ` Junio C Hamano
2022-03-25 17:23       ` Derrick Stolee
2022-03-25 17:36         ` Taylor Blau
2022-03-25 18:22           ` Junio C Hamano
2022-03-24 18:34   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] test-lib-functions: fix test_subcommand_inexact Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-03-24 18:49     ` Taylor Blau
2022-03-24 20:48     ` Junio C Hamano
2022-03-25 14:03       ` Derrick Stolee
2022-03-25 17:25         ` Junio C Hamano
2022-03-25 19:02   ` [PATCH v3 0/2] " Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-03-25 19:02     ` [PATCH v3 1/2] t7700: check post-condition in kept-pack test Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-03-25 19:02     ` [PATCH v3 2/2] test-lib-functions: remove test_subcommand_inexact Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-03-30  2:44     ` [PATCH v3 0/2] test-lib-functions: fix test_subcommand_inexact Taylor Blau

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