On Tue, Dec 04 2012, Jani Nikula wrote:
> The quoting for ${SEARCH} is broken when it's supposed to be '*', and

Why is it broken?  It does not appear to be broken to me and in fact the
test passes.

> it seems tricky to get it right. Just drop the variable and use '*'
> directly. Before this, none of the messages ever matched, and the test
> was comparing zeros.
> ---
>  test/count |   23 ++++++++++-------------
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/test/count b/test/count
> index 300b171..8e587ff 100755
> --- a/test/count
> +++ b/test/count
> @@ -4,37 +4,34 @@ test_description='"notmuch count" for messages and threads'
>  
>  add_email_corpus
>  
> -SEARCH="\"*\""
> -
>  test_begin_subtest "message count is the default for notmuch count"
>  test_expect_equal \
> -    "`notmuch search --output=messages ${SEARCH} | wc -l`" \
> -    "`notmuch count ${SEARCH}`"
> +    "`notmuch search --output=messages '*' | wc -l`" \
> +    "`notmuch count '*'`"
>  
>  test_begin_subtest "message count with --output=messages"
>  test_expect_equal \
> -    "`notmuch search --output=messages ${SEARCH} | wc -l`" \
> -    "`notmuch count --output=messages ${SEARCH}`"
> +    "`notmuch search --output=messages '*' | wc -l`" \
> +    "`notmuch count --output=messages '*'`"
>  
>  test_begin_subtest "thread count with --output=threads"
>  test_expect_equal \
> -    "`notmuch search --output=threads ${SEARCH} | wc -l`" \
> -    "`notmuch count --output=threads ${SEARCH}`"
> +    "`notmuch search --output=threads '*' | wc -l`" \
> +    "`notmuch count --output=threads '*'`"
>  
>  test_begin_subtest "thread count is the default for notmuch search"
>  test_expect_equal \
> -    "`notmuch search ${SEARCH} | wc -l`" \
> -    "`notmuch count --output=threads ${SEARCH}`"
> +    "`notmuch search '*' | wc -l`" \
> +    "`notmuch count --output=threads '*'`"
>  
> -SEARCH="from:cworth and not from:cworth"
>  test_begin_subtest "count with no matching messages"
>  test_expect_equal \
>      "0" \
> -    "`notmuch count --output=messages ${SEARCH}`"
> +    "`notmuch count --output=messages from:cworth and not from:cworth`"
>  
>  test_begin_subtest "count with no matching threads"
>  test_expect_equal \
>      "0" \
> -    "`notmuch count --output=threads ${SEARCH}`"
> +    "`notmuch count --output=threads from:cworth and not from:cworth`"
>  
>  test_done

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