git p4 test: move client_view() function to library

This code will be useful in --detect-branches --use-client-spec tests.

Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/lib-git-p4.sh b/t/lib-git-p4.sh
index 2d753ab7e1..d748c36df5 100644
--- a/t/lib-git-p4.sh
+++ b/t/lib-git-p4.sh
@@ -115,3 +115,20 @@ marshal_dump() {
 	EOF
 	"$PYTHON_PATH" "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/marshal-dump.py"
 }
+
+#
+# Construct a client with this list of View lines
+#
+client_view() {
+	(
+		cat <<-EOF &&
+		Client: client
+		Description: client
+		Root: $cli
+		View:
+		EOF
+		for arg ; do
+			printf "\t$arg\n"
+		done
+	) | p4 client -i
+}