Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] t5516: introduce 'push ref expression with non-existent oid src'

From: Patrick Steinhardt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2025 15:28:02 +0200

On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 11:24:37PM -0700, Denton Liu wrote:
> diff --git a/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh b/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh
> index 4e9c27b0f2..c2fcfeca92 100755
> --- a/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh
> +++ b/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh
> @@ -509,6 +509,13 @@ test_expect_success 'push ref expression with non-existent, incomplete dest' '
>  
>  '
>  
> +test_expect_failure 'push ref expression with non-existent oid src' '
> +
> +	mk_test testrepo &&
> +	test_must_fail git push testrepo $(test_oid 001):branch
> +
> +'
> +
>  for head in HEAD @
>  do

Nit: I don't think it's necessary to implement the test in a separate
commit. Folks who want to check that your fix really does something can
trivially revert the code changes while retaining the test. I used to do
the same in the past, but received the same feedback.

Also, I think we can drop the empty surrounding lines in the test body.
Other tests in this file do the same, but that is not a good reason to
not do better for newly added tests.

Patrick