Jonathan Tan [off-list ref] writes:

Glen Choo [off-list ref] writes:

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diff --git a/t/t5526-fetch-submodules.sh b/t/t5526-fetch-submodules.sh
index 0e93df1665..a3890e2f6c 100755
--- a/t/t5526-fetch-submodules.sh
+++ b/t/t5526-fetch-submodules.sh

@@ -13,6 +13,32 @@ export GIT_TEST_FATAL_REGISTER_SUBMODULE_ODB
 
 pwd=$(pwd)
 
+check_sub() {
+	NEW_HEAD=$1 &&
+	cat <<-EOF >$pwd/expect.err.sub
+	Fetching submodule submodule
+	From $pwd/submodule
+	   OLD_HEAD..$NEW_HEAD  sub        -> origin/sub
+	EOF
+}
+
+check_deep() {
+	NEW_HEAD=$1 &&
+	cat <<-EOF >$pwd/expect.err.deep
+	Fetching submodule submodule/subdir/deepsubmodule
+	From $pwd/deepsubmodule
+	   OLD_HEAD..$NEW_HEAD  deep       -> origin/deep
+	EOF
+}
+
+check_super() {
+	NEW_HEAD=$1 &&
+	cat <<-EOF >$pwd/expect.err.super
+	From $pwd/.
+	   OLD_HEAD..$NEW_HEAD  super      -> origin/super
+	EOF
+}

These don't do any checking, but just write what's expected to a file.
Could these be called something like write_sub_expected etc.?

Thanks for the suggestion! I was struggling with names.