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authorMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2014-04-27 21:15:47 +0300
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2014-06-10 13:09:00 -0700
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test: add test_write_lines helper
API and implementation as suggested by Junio. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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+ - test_write_lines <text>
+
+ Split <text> to white-space separated words and write it out on standard
+ output, one word per line.
+ Useful to prepare multi-line files in a compact form.
+
+ Example:
+
+ test_write_lines "a b c d e f g" >foo
+
+ Is a more compact equivalent of:
+ cat >foo <<-EOF
+ a
+ b
+ c
+ d
+ e
+ f
+ g
+ EOF
+
+
- test_pause
This command is useful for writing and debugging tests and must be