Signed-off-by: Jonathan Chang <redacted>
---
 t/t0000-basic.sh | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/t/t0000-basic.sh b/t/t0000-basic.sh
index 47666b013e..3de13daabe 100755
--- a/t/t0000-basic.sh
+++ b/t/t0000-basic.sh

@@ -1136,8 +1136,8 @@ test_expect_success 'git commit-tree omits duplicated parent in a commit' '
 	parent=$(sed -n -e "s/^parent //p" -e "/^author /q" actual | sort -u) &&
 	test "z$commit0" = "z$parent" &&
 	git show --pretty=raw $commit2 >actual &&
-	numparent=$(sed -n -e "s/^parent //p" -e "/^author /q" actual | wc -l) &&
-	test $numparent = 1
+	sed -n -e "s/^parent //p" -e "/^author /q" actual >parents &&
+	test_line_count = 1 parents
 '

 test_expect_success 'update-index D/F conflict' '

@@ -1146,8 +1146,7 @@ test_expect_success 'update-index D/F conflict' '
 	mv tmp path2 &&
 	git update-index --add --replace path2 path0/file2 &&
 	git ls-files path0 >actual &&
-	numpath0=$(wc -l <actual) &&
-	test $numpath0 = 1
+	test_line_count = 1 actual
 '