Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes:

> Based on your responses, I'm leaning towards:
>
>   test_cmp_str() {
>       test "$@" && return 0
>       echo >&2 "command failed: test $*"
>       return 1
>   }
>
> since the point is really just to print _something_ when the test fails
> (any quoting or whitespace may be wrong, of course, but that's OK; it's
> for human consumption, and is just a hint).

If we really cared, we could do

        echo >&2 "command failed: test $(git rev-parse --sq-quote "$@")"

perhaps?

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