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| author |  Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | 2014-05-05 16:51:43 -0700 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-06-10 13:09:05 -0700 |
| commit | bb98b01ee8c5c6f66a6d70aa453b70184dd3d96f (patch) | |
| tree | d311dc146813bb71e2fec4e2e4fd6e739b238420 | |
| parent | test: add test_write_lines helper (diff) | |
| download | tgif-bb98b01ee8c5c6f66a6d70aa453b70184dd3d96f.tar.xz | |
test doc: test_write_lines does not split its arguments
test_write_lines carefully quotes its arguments as "$@", so
test_write_lines "a b" c
writes two lines as requested, not three.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | t/README | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -596,15 +596,14 @@ library for your script to use. ... ' - - test_write_lines <text> + - test_write_lines <lines> - Split <text> to white-space separated words and write it out on standard - output, one word per line. + Write <lines> on standard output, one line per argument. Useful to prepare multi-line files in a compact form. Example: - test_write_lines "a b c d e f g" >foo + test_write_lines a b c d e f g >foo Is a more compact equivalent of: cat >foo <<-EOF |