add test for variety of potential git diff situations

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkg/test/test.go b/pkg/test/test.go
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+++ b/pkg/test/test.go
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+package test
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"os"
+	"os/exec"
+
+	"github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/pkg/utils"
+)
+
+// GenerateRepo generates a repo from test/repos and changes the directory to be
+// inside the newly made repo
+func GenerateRepo(filename string) error {
+	testPath := utils.GetProjectRoot() + "/test/repos/"
+	if err := os.Chdir(testPath); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if output, err := exec.Command("bash", filename).CombinedOutput(); err != nil {
+		return errors.New(string(output))
+	}
+	if err := os.Chdir(testPath + "repo"); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return nil
+}