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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Jan Krüger" <jk@jk.gs>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce receive.denyDeletes
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:04:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v63n99omx.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081030194503.2f9ece1a@perceptron> (Jan Krüger's message of "Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:45:03 +0100")

"Jan Krüger" <jk@jk.gs> writes:

> Can I then delete the branch afterwards without lots of juggling (in
> case the test fails due to a random other reason that the branch
> accidentally getting deleted by receive-pack)? I'd expect I'd have to
> save the exit code to a temporary variable and that's just as ugly.

Although I agree that your attempt to allow the test continue even when
this test fails is a very good practice, I personally do not find the
alternative you mention ugly at all.  I actually find that "return 1"
uglier because it feels like it knows too much about how
test_expect_success is implemented.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-31  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-30 18:11 [PATCH] Introduce receive.denyDeletes Jan Krüger
2008-10-30 18:32 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-30 18:45   ` Jan Krüger
2008-10-31  8:04     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-10-31 14:30       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-01 14:42         ` [PATCH v2] " Jan Krüger
2008-11-01 18:07           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-31 22:45     ` [PATCH] " Johannes Schindelin

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