Merge branch 'maint-1.5.4' into maint

diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index 6aea0ea0a579973c9baddff608ea92445ef9fcbb..7c2a8ba77d312c3196767969a39687bfb12f74c9 100644 (file)
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ export GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY
 export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL GIT_AUTHOR_NAME
 export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL GIT_COMMITTER_NAME
 export EDITOR VISUAL
+GIT_TEST_CMP=${GIT_TEST_CMP:-diff -u}
 
 # Protect ourselves from common misconfiguration to export
 # CDPATH into the environment
@@ -299,7 +300,24 @@ test_expect_code () {
 
 test_must_fail () {
        "$@"
-       test $? -gt 0 -a $? -le 128
+       test $? -gt 0 -a $? -le 129
+}
+
+# test_cmp is a helper function to compare actual and expected output.
+# You can use it like:
+#
+#      test_expect_success 'foo works' '
+#              echo expected >expected &&
+#              foo >actual &&
+#              test_cmp expected actual
+#      '
+#
+# This could be written as either "cmp" or "diff -u", but:
+# - cmp's output is not nearly as easy to read as diff -u
+# - not all diff versions understand "-u"
+
+test_cmp() {
+       $GIT_TEST_CMP "$@"
 }
 
 # Most tests can use the created repository, but some may need to create more.
@@ -378,7 +396,12 @@ fi
 
 # Test repository
 test=trash
-rm -fr "$test"
+rm -fr "$test" || {
+       trap - exit
+       echo >&5 "FATAL: Cannot prepare test area"
+       exit 1
+}
+
 test_create_repo $test
 cd "$test"