On Mon, 13 Nov 2017, Ben Peart wrote: > Why do you redirect stdout to stderr and then and perform an "echo" > afterwards? I don't understand what benefit that provides. I removed this > logic and the test still passes so am confused as to what its purpose is.
Ah -- the "echo" was purely to clean up STDERR as I was running the test interactively. It serves no purpose, which is why it was hard to understand its benefit. :) Apologies for missing this (and in not replying here earlier!). I'll send a commit that drops these. - Alex > > +# test that splitting the index dosn't interfere > > +test_expect_success 'splitting the index results in the same state' ' > > + write_integration_script && > > + dirty_repo && > > + git update-index --fsmonitor && > > + git ls-files -f >expect && > > + test-dump-fsmonitor >&2 && echo && > > + git update-index --fsmonitor --split-index && > > + test-dump-fsmonitor >&2 && echo && > > + git ls-files -f >actual && > > + test_cmp expect actual > > +' > > + > > test_done
