On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 03:02:35PM -0700, Josh Steadmon wrote:
> +test_expect_success "don't overload target directory" '
> +     mkdir trace_target_dir &&
> +     test_when_finished "rm -r trace_target_dir" &&
> +     (
> +             GIT_TRACE2_MAX_FILES=5 &&
> +             export GIT_TRACE2_MAX_FILES &&
> +             cd trace_target_dir &&
> +             test_seq $GIT_TRACE2_MAX_FILES >../expected_filenames.txt &&
> +             xargs touch <../expected_filenames.txt &&
> +             cd .. &&
> +             ls trace_target_dir >first_ls_output.txt &&
> +             test_cmp expected_filenames.txt first_ls_output.txt &&

Nit: what's the purpose of this 'ls' and 'test_cmp'?

It looks like they check that xargs created all the files it was told
to create.  I think that this falls into the category "We are not in
the business of verifying that the world given to us sanely works."
and is unnecessary.

> +             GIT_TRACE2="$(pwd)/trace_target_dir" test-tool trace2 001return > 0
> +     ) &&
> +     echo git-trace2-overload >>expected_filenames.txt &&
> +     ls trace_target_dir >second_ls_output.txt &&
> +     test_cmp expected_filenames.txt second_ls_output.txt
> +'
> +
>  test_done

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