Am 19.06.19 um 01:12 schrieb Eric Sunshine:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 8:24 AM Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
> <gitgitgad...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> diff --git a/t/t0001-init.sh b/t/t0001-init.sh
>> @@ -474,7 +474,8 @@ test_expect_success MINGW 'redirect std handles' '
>>         printf ".git\nfatal: Needed a single revision\n" >expect &&
>> -       test_cmp expect output.txt
>> +       sort <output.txt >output.sorted &&
>> +       test_cmp expect output.sorted
> 
> It was quite surprising to see this sorting only 'output' but not
> 'expect'. I see now that 'output' is already "sorted" (in that sense),
> but it feels fragile. More robust would be to sort 'expect' as well:
> 
>     printf ".git\nfatal: Needed a single revision\n" | sort >expect &&

Following Dscho's recent objection elsewhere that tests tend to check
for much more than regressions, wouldn't it be logical to write these as

        grep -F .git" output.txt &&
        test_i18n_grep "Needed a single rev" output.txt

without an 'expect' file at all?

-- Hannes

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