Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] fix test "syntax_errors_in_.mtn-ignore"

[Ralf S. Engelschall]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> On 10/10/07, Ralf S. Engelschall <address@hidden> wrote:
> > A "make check" on h:n.v.m currently results in one failed test:
> > "syntax_errors_in_.mtn-ignore". The reasons is because the test performs
> > a "mtn ls unknown" command and checks the stderr output. Unfortunately,
> > it doesn't seem to be deterministic in what order the files are checked
> > against the Lua function ignore_file() and hence the first line ("mtn:
> > warning: while matching file 'XXXX':") of the stderr output of "mtn ls
> > unknown" contains an abitrary filename "XXXX" and hence lets the test
> > fail. There are multiple possibilities to fix this. I propose to simply
> > skip the first line of stderr during output comparisons:
>
> That's the right fix in principle but I think there is a more elegant
> way to implement it.  Stay tuned...

Yes, that's what I expected.
Feel free to fix in a more elegant way, please.

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
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