Felipe Contreras <felipe.contre...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contre...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> --- a/t/test-lib-functions.sh
>>>> +++ b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
>>>> @@ -606,6 +606,18 @@ test_cmp() {
>>>>         $GIT_TEST_CMP "$@"
>>>>  }
>>>>
>>>> +# Check if the file expected to be empty is indeed empty, and barfs
>>>> +# otherwise.
>>>> +
>>>> +test_output_must_be_empty () {
>>>
>>> Why such a big name? test_empty() does the trick.
>>
>> Primarily in order to avoid that exact name "test_empty" that others
>> may want to use for a helper to check that the contents of a string
>> variable is empty.
>
> Which is never going to happen.

For anything, a failure from

        test -z "$mustbeemptystring"

in the test suite is much harder to diagnose because there is
nothing left in the trash directory to inspect, as opposed to

        test ! -s "$mustbeemptyfile"

where you can just go there and inspect yourself.
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