Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] t1403: verify that path exists and is a file

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:06:33 -0800

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:

> Mahendra Dani <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> test -e does not provide a nice error message when
>> we hit test failures, so use test_path_exists() instead
>> and verify that if the path exists then it is a file using test_path_is_file().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mahendra Dani <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>  t/t1403-show-ref.sh | 3 ++-
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/t/t1403-show-ref.sh b/t/t1403-show-ref.sh
>> index 9d698b3cc3..4afde01a29 100755
>> --- a/t/t1403-show-ref.sh
>> +++ b/t/t1403-show-ref.sh
>> @@ -196,7 +196,8 @@ test_expect_success 'show-ref --verify with dangling ref' '
>>  
>>  	remove_object() {
>>  		file=$(sha1_file "$*") &&
>> -		test -e "$file" &&
>> +		test_path_exists "$file" &&
>> +		test_path_is_file "$file" &&
>>  		rm -f "$file"
>>  	} &&
>
> Makes sense.  Will queue.

No, no, no.  test_is_file alone is sufficient---if the thing does
not exist, it would not be a file anyway ;-)