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From: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] t/: Use "test_must_fail git" instead of "! git"
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:43:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080712214359.GA22323@leksak.fem-net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3vdzbccoq.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Hi,

Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> writes:
> 
> > This patch changes every occurrence of "! git" -- with the meaning
> > that a git call has to fail -- into "test_must_fail git".
> > 
> > This is useful to
> 
> >  - advertise the use of "test_must_fail" for new tests.
> 
> Hmmm... I think advertising the use of 'test_must_fail' would be
> the best served by adding information about this function to
> t/README

This is true.
This is not only true for test_must_fail, it is also true for
stuff like test_tick, test_set_editor, test_cmp and the like.

But, well, t/README says also, that "existing programs are the best
source of the information."
And I think it is right ;-)

Regards,
  Stephan

-- 
Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>, PGP 0x6EDDD207FCC5040F

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-12 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-12 15:47 [PATCH 1/2] t/test-lib.sh: Let test_must_fail fail on signals only Stephan Beyer
2008-07-12 15:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] t/: Use "test_must_fail git" instead of "! git" Stephan Beyer
2008-07-12 16:04   ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-12 21:43     ` Stephan Beyer [this message]
2008-07-12 21:30   ` [SQUASH PATCH] t9001: " Stephan Beyer
2008-07-16  5:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] t/test-lib.sh: Let test_must_fail fail on signals only Jeff King
2008-07-16  5:54   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-17  5:18     ` Jeff King
2008-07-17  5:38       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-17  6:01         ` Jeff King
2008-07-17  6:31           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-17  6:38             ` Jeff King
2008-07-17  7:22               ` Johannes Sixt
2008-07-17  7:25                 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-16 11:57   ` Stephan Beyer

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