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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
To: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] add a test for semantic errors in config files
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 13:38:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqr415r9vi.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53D63389.5090205@gmail.com> (Tanay Abhra's message of "Mon, 28 Jul 2014 16:57:05 +0530")

Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail•com> writes:

> On 7/28/2014 4:52 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>> Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail•com> writes:
>> 
>>> +test_expect_success 'check line errors for malformed values' '
>>> +	mv .git/config .git/config.old &&
>>> +	test_when_finished "mv .git/config.old .git/config" &&
>>> +	cat >.git/config <<-\EOF &&
>>> +	[alias]
>>> +		br
>>> +	EOF
>>> +	test_expect_code 128 git br 2>result &&
>>> +	grep "fatal: bad config file line 2 in .git/config" result
>>> +'
>> 
>> This is PATCH 4, and it tests a bug fixed in PATCH 1. It would have
>> eased review to group both patches, either
>> 
>> PATCH 1: introduce test_expect_failure test to demonstrate the failure
>
> Didn't Junio comment that he wouldn't recommend inserting a test_expect_failure
> for new tests and then flipping them after in the series.

No, he even said it was good practice:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/254101/focus=254104

his point was to avoid breaking something and repairing in another patch
(which your initial series was doing because the test patch was coming
between "rewrite git_config() to use the config-set API" and "add line
number and file name info to `config_set`").

The situation is different when you have a pre-existing bug.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-28 11:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-28 10:33 [PATCH v3 0/6] Rewrite `git_config()` using config-set API Tanay Abhra
2014-07-28 10:33 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] config.c: fix accuracy of line number in errors Tanay Abhra
2014-07-28 10:33 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] add line number and file name info to `config_set` Tanay Abhra
2014-07-28 10:33 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] rewrite git_config() to use the config-set API Tanay Abhra
2014-07-28 10:33 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] add a test for semantic errors in config files Tanay Abhra
2014-07-28 11:22   ` Matthieu Moy
2014-07-28 11:27     ` Tanay Abhra
2014-07-28 11:38       ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2014-07-28 10:33 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] config: add `git_die_config()` to the config-set API Tanay Abhra
2014-07-28 10:55   ` Ramsay Jones
2014-07-28 11:02     ` Tanay Abhra
2014-07-28 11:16       ` Matthieu Moy
2014-07-28 11:14   ` Matthieu Moy
2014-07-28 10:33 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] add tests for `git_config_get_string_const()` Tanay Abhra
2014-07-28 11:24 ` [PATCH v3 0/6] Rewrite `git_config()` using config-set API Matthieu Moy

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