Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] format-patch: create leading components of output directory

SZEDER Gábor [off-list ref] writes:

On one hand, these object ids won't mean much to anyone who might have
to debug such a test failure in the future, and on the other these
tests are about 'git format-patch', not about 'git rev-list'.  If the
check were written like this:

  count=$(git rev-list --count master..side) &&
  ls patches >list &&
  test_line_count = $count list

then the error message on failure would look something like this:

  test_line_count: line count for list != 3
  0001-first.patch
  0002-second.patch

which, I think, would be more useful.

That's nice attention to the detail ;-)