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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Mahendra Dani <danimahendra0904@gmail.com>
Cc: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>,  git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] t1403: prefer test_path_exists helper function
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2025 04:05:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqldtlt304.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABGrwBB1-UiiPEOptN9csVP1WYg2X=SWeMxxiyDfz02VmDp1vA@mail.gmail.com> (Mahendra Dani's message of "Tue, 4 Mar 2025 07:57:25 +0530")

Mahendra Dani <danimahendra0904@gmail.com> writes:

>> >       remove_object() {
>> >               file=$(sha1_file "$*") &&
>> > -             test -e "$file" &&
>> > +             test_path_exists "$file" &&
>> >               rm -f "$file"
>> >       } &&
>>
>> The refactoring is true to the original spirit of the preimage indeed.
>> But we could also improve it even further if we verified that the path
>> not only exists, but exists and is a file via `test_path_is_file()`. If
>> we decide to do that we should also explain the change in the commit
>> message.
>
> Yes, sure.
> I will improve it further using the `test_path_is_file()` helper
> function and change the commit message in v2 patch.

You may want to think about why there is "-f" there.  If we remove
it, do we still need to have any check there?

  reply	other threads:[~2025-03-04 12:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-03-01 10:58 [GSOC][PATCH 0/1] t1403: prefer test_path_exists helper function Mahendra Dani
2025-03-01 10:58 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Mahendra Dani
2025-03-03 10:26   ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-03-04  2:27     ` Mahendra Dani
2025-03-04 12:05       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2025-03-04 17:24         ` Mahendra Dani
2025-03-04 17:26           ` Junio C Hamano
2025-03-04 17:35             ` Mahendra Dani
2025-03-04 17:44               ` Junio C Hamano
2025-03-04 17:49                 ` Mahendra Dani
2025-03-04 18:07                   ` Junio C Hamano
2025-03-04 17:35         ` Eric Sunshine
2025-03-04 17:49           ` Junio C Hamano
2025-03-04 18:07             ` Eric Sunshine
2025-03-04 18:28               ` Eric Sunshine
2025-03-04 18:30               ` Junio C Hamano
2025-03-04  9:15 ` [GSOC][PATCH v2 0/1] t1403: verify path exists and is a file Mahendra Dani
2025-03-04  9:41   ` [GSOC][PATCH v3 " Mahendra Dani
2025-03-04  9:41     ` [PATCH v3 1/1] t1403: verify that " Mahendra Dani
2025-03-04 18:05       ` Junio C Hamano
2025-03-04 18:06         ` Junio C Hamano
2025-03-04 18:13           ` Mahendra Dani
2025-03-04 11:23     ` [PATCH v4 0/1] t1403: verify " Mahendra Dani
2025-03-04 11:27     ` Mahendra Dani
2025-03-04 11:27       ` [PATCH v4 1/1] t1403: verify that " Mahendra Dani
2025-03-04 18:13         ` Junio C Hamano
2025-03-04 18:19           ` Mahendra Dani
2025-03-04 16:00     ` [GSOC][PATCH v3 0/1] t1403: verify " Junio C Hamano
2025-03-04  9:27 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] t1403: verify that " Mahendra Dani
2025-03-04 11:02   ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-03-04 11:15     ` Mahendra Dani

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