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From: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] t/test-lib.sh: Let test_must_fail fail on signals only
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:57:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080716115732.GB25087@leksak.fem-net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080716051829.GB4030@segfault.peff.net>

Hi,

Jeff King wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 05:47:51PM +0200, Stephan Beyer wrote:
> 
> > The test_must_fail function in test-lib.sh has been designed
> > to distinguish segmentation faults from controlled errors.
> > But in the current implementation this only works if a git
> > command does not return a small negative value, like -1, -2
> > or -3. But some git commands do.
> 
> This is probably a fine protective measure, and it looks like Junio has
> already applied it. But shouldn't any git commands returning such values
> be fixed?

I didn't want to change any error codes and I wouldn't say that the term
"fix" is the right one here.

> Which commands return such bogus error codes?

Why bogus?

To answer your question, some are:
	git diff-files
	git diff-index
	git diff
	git merge-file

I think at least one test case failed "test_must_fail git merge-file ..."
without that change.

Regards.

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

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-16 11:58 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
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 [this message]

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