# without having to worry about future changes of the commit ID and spaces
# of the output. Single quotes are replaced with double quotes, because
# it is boring to prepare unquoted single quotes in expect text. We also
-# remove some locale error messages, which break test if we turn on
-# `GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON=true` in order to test unintentional translations
-# on plumbing commands.
+# remove some locale error messages. The emitted human-readable errors are
+# redundant to the more machine-readable output the tests already assert.
make_user_friendly_and_stable_output () {
sed \
-e "s/ *\$//" \
make_user_friendly_and_stable_output |
sed -n ${1+"$@"}
}
+
+test_cmp_refs () {
+ indir=
+ if test "$1" = "-C"
+ then
+ shift
+ indir="$1"
+ shift
+ fi
+ indir=${indir:+"$indir"/}
+ cat >show-ref.expect &&
+ git ${indir:+ -C "$indir"} show-ref >show-ref.pristine &&
+ make_user_friendly_and_stable_output <show-ref.pristine >show-ref.filtered &&
+ test_cmp show-ref.expect show-ref.filtered
+}