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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tests: make test_must_fail fail on missing commands
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:25:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100831172528.GA15020@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v7hj6d8im.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 09:58:09AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > +	elif test $exit_code = 127; then
> > +		echo >&2 "test_must_fail: command not found: $*"
> > +		return 1
> >  	fi
> 
> Hmm.  One worry is that if we ever exit(127) ourselves this would be
> confused, but hopefully we are not that clueless.

Yeah, I considered that but dismissed it. I don't think we are that
clueless, and even if we were, then I think test_must_fail is doing a
good thing by pointing it out to us.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-31 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-31 14:49 [PATCH 0/2] fix quotes in maint-reflog-beyond-horizon and detached-stash Jon Seymour
2010-08-31 14:49 ` [PATCH 1/2] maint-reflog-beyond-horizon: fix broken test_must_fail calls Jon Seymour
2010-08-31 14:49 ` [PATCH 2/2] detached-stash: " Jon Seymour
2010-08-31 15:54 ` [PATCH 0/2] fix quotes in maint-reflog-beyond-horizon and detached-stash Jeff King
2010-08-31 15:56   ` [PATCH 1/2] tests: make test_must_fail more verbose Jeff King
2010-08-31 17:10     ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-31 18:06       ` Jeff King
2010-08-31 19:35         ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-01  3:37     ` Jon Seymour
2010-09-01 10:55       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-31 15:56   ` [PATCH 2/2] tests: make test_must_fail fail on missing commands Jeff King
2010-08-31 16:58     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-31 17:25       ` Jeff King [this message]
2010-08-31 17:26     ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-31 18:08       ` Jeff King
2010-08-31 18:14         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-31 17:03 ` [PATCH 0/2] fix quotes in maint-reflog-beyond-horizon and detached-stash Junio C Hamano

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