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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco•com>
Cc: Mahendra Dani <danimahendra0904@gmail•com>,
	 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 09:49:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqcyewr8j7.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cQ275qBWzaYmMXydiA_8+CTx3FhAAY+o8ro+hD03wzu0g@mail.gmail.com> (Eric Sunshine's message of "Tue, 4 Mar 2025 12:35:43 -0500")

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco•com> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 7:05 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> wrote:
>> Mahendra Dani <danimahendra0904@gmail•com> writes:
>> >> >       remove_object() {
>> >> >               file=$(sha1_file "$*") &&
>> >> > -             test -e "$file" &&
>> >> > +             test_path_exists "$file" &&
>> >> >               rm -f "$file"
>> >> >       } &&
> That's a good question to ask, but isn't the implied suggestion of
> dropping "-f" going in the wrong direction? If I'm reading
> remove_object() correctly, `test -e` is being used as control flow,
> *not* as an assertion that the file exists.

If sha1_file says the loose object must be at path $file, and the
call to test -e "$file" returns false, two things happen in this
function:

 (1) control stops and "rm -f" does not trigger
 (2) the function returns non-zero status to the caller

If you omit the check and say rm "$file" instead, under the same
scenario, (1) "rm" is attempted, but there is nothing to remove so
the command returns non-zero status, and (2) the function returns
that non-zero status to the caller

If the file does exist, both will remove the file, and give the
caller zero status return.

So?

  reply	other threads:[~2025-03-04 17:49 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
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 [this message]
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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