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From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf•ethz.ch>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] remote: add a test for extra arguments, according to docs
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:23:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obd3cbux.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vhaiva9u5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:37:54 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:

> Thomas Rast <trast@inf•ethz.ch> writes:
>
>> +test_extra_arg () {
>> +	expect="success"
>> +	if test "z$1" = "z-f"; then
>> +		expect=failure
>> +		shift
>> +	fi
>> +	test_expect_$expect "extra args: $*" "
>> +		test_must_fail git remote $* bogus_extra_arg 2>actual &&
>> +		grep '^usage:' actual
>> +	"
>> +}
>> +
>> +test_extra_arg -f add nick url
>> +test_extra_arg rename origin newname
>
> Perhaps just a taste in readability thing, but I would prefer to see
> them more like
>
> 	test_extra_arg_expect failure add nick url
> 	test_extra_arg_expect success rename origin newname
>
> than misunderstanding-inviting "-f" that often stands for "--force".

Hmm.  I had that at first, but then the final cleanup would have had to
touch all tests to remove the optional argument, making it noisy.

Anyway, it's probably all a bit over-engineered for only one effective
code change ;-)

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-25  7:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-24 13:54 [PATCH 0/3] git remote with superfluous arguments Thomas Rast
2013-04-24 13:54 ` [PATCH 1/3] remote: add a test for extra arguments, according to docs Thomas Rast
2013-04-24 21:37   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-25  7:23     ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2013-04-25 15:31       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-24 13:54 ` [PATCH 2/3] remote: check for superfluous arguments in 'git remote add' Thomas Rast
2013-04-24 13:54 ` [PATCH 3/3] remote: 'show' and 'prune' take more than one remote Thomas Rast

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