Re: [PATCH 4/4] Add a second testcase for handling invalid strategies in git-merge

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> writes:

> This one tests '-s index' which is interesting because git-merge-index
> is an existing git command but it is not a valid strategy.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
> ---
>  t/t7600-merge.sh |    4 ++++
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/t7600-merge.sh b/t/t7600-merge.sh
> index 5eeb6c2..0329aee 100755
> --- a/t/t7600-merge.sh
> +++ b/t/t7600-merge.sh
> @@ -230,6 +230,10 @@ test_expect_success 'test option parsing' '
>  	test_must_fail git merge
>  '
>  
> +test_expect_success 'reject non-strategy with a git-merge-foo name' '
> +	test_must_fail git merge -s index c1
> +'
> +

True, but with the old code that might blindly have executed
git-merge-index the test would also have failed, and you would want to
tell two cases apart, wouldn't you?