Re: [PATCH] t5614: don't use subshells

Stefan Beller [off-list ref] writes:

 Unlike the prior patch we would not want this patch to fall through
 to origin/maint fast, but allow cooking?

I do not see anything that makes this treated differently from the
other fix.  The only difference in behaviour is that "lines" file is
now created at the root level of the trash repository's working tree
instead of tested clones', and I do not think any test depends on
the number of untracked paths in the trash working tree or tries to
make sure a file called "lines" is not in there.

Having said that, I wonder if we want further reduction of the
repetition.  Each test except "setup" in this script does an
identical thing with very small set of parameters:

    - make sure super_clone will be removed when done.
    - clone file://$pwd/. to super_clone but with different set of options.
    - check the commits in super_clone and super_clone/sub.

So, the above would ideally become something like

do_test 3 3 --recurse-submodules

where the helper would look like

do_test () {
	cnt_super=$1 cnt_sub=$2 &&
        shift 2 &&
        test_when_finished "rm -fr super_clone" &&
        git clone "$@" "file://$pwd/." super_clone &&
        git -C super_clone log --oneline >lines &&
        test_line_count = $cnt_super lines &&
        git -C super_clone/sub log --oneline >lines &&
        test_line_count = $cnt_sub lines
}

Would it rob too much flexibility from future tests to be added to
this script if we did it that way?