merge-base: use OPT_CMDMODE and clarify the command line parsing

diff --git a/t/test-lib-functions.sh b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
index ad6d60aaab15c5d7e9891e0e2a07789e2c3a9ecc..a7e9aacbb2d9b05b0d5083a0fd70cb9287fcf454 100644 (file)
--- a/t/test-lib-functions.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
@@ -611,6 +611,18 @@ test_cmp() {
        $GIT_TEST_CMP "$@"
 }
 
+# Check if the file expected to be empty is indeed empty, and barfs
+# otherwise.
+
+test_must_be_empty () {
+       if test -s "$1"
+       then
+               echo "'$1' is not empty, it contains:"
+               cat "$1"
+               return 1
+       fi
+}
+
 # Tests that its two parameters refer to the same revision
 test_cmp_rev () {
        git rev-parse --verify "$1" >expect.rev &&
@@ -681,3 +693,20 @@ test_create_repo () {
                mv .git/hooks .git/hooks-disabled
        ) || exit
 }
+
+# This function helps on symlink challenged file systems when it is not
+# important that the file system entry is a symbolic link.
+# Use test_ln_s_add instead of "ln -s x y && git add y" to add a
+# symbolic link entry y to the index.
+
+test_ln_s_add () {
+       if test_have_prereq SYMLINKS
+       then
+               ln -s "$1" "$2" &&
+               git update-index --add "$2"
+       else
+               printf '%s' "$1" >"$2" &&
+               ln_s_obj=$(git hash-object -w "$2") &&
+               git update-index --add --cacheinfo 120000 $ln_s_obj "$2"
+       fi
+}