solaris: tests can't use tail -n
authorDanek Duvall <danek.duvall@oracle.com>
Mon, 26 Aug 2013 15:20:44 -0700
changeset 19628 3193b23eec61
parent 19627 5df7118bdcd9
child 19629 81241f978fd2
solaris: tests can't use tail -n Solaris tail doesn't recognize the -n option. Replace the one use of it with some inline python code, and add a test case to check-code.py.
contrib/check-code.py
tests/test-import-merge.t
--- a/contrib/check-code.py	Fri Aug 23 16:05:38 2013 -0700
+++ b/contrib/check-code.py	Mon Aug 26 15:20:44 2013 -0700
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
     (r'echo -n', "don't use 'echo -n', use printf"),
     (r'(^| )wc[^|]*$\n(?!.*\(re\))', "filter wc output"),
     (r'head -c', "don't use 'head -c', use 'dd'"),
+    (r'tail -n', "don't use the '-n' option to tail, just use '-<num>'"),
     (r'sha1sum', "don't use sha1sum, use $TESTDIR/md5sum.py"),
     (r'ls.*-\w*R', "don't use 'ls -R', use 'find'"),
     (r'printf.*[^\\]\\([1-9]|0\d)', "don't use 'printf \NNN', use Python"),
--- a/tests/test-import-merge.t	Fri Aug 23 16:05:38 2013 -0700
+++ b/tests/test-import-merge.t	Mon Aug 26 15:20:44 2013 -0700
@@ -129,7 +129,9 @@
   $ echo a>>a
   $ hg ci -m3
   $ hg export 2 | head -7 > ../a.patch
-  $ hg export tip | tail -n +8 >> ../a.patch
+  $ hg export tip > out
+  >>> apatch = open("../a.patch", "a")
+  >>> apatch.write("".join(open("out").readlines()[7:]))
 
   $ cd ..
   $ hg clone -qr0 repo3 repo3-clone