From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:19:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improved and extended t5404
Message-ID: <20071114071929.GA2942@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vmythr8xf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano, Wed, Nov 14, 2007 01:02:20 +0100:
> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Ignore exit code of git push in t5404, as it is not relevant for the
> > test
> 
> This proposed log message solicits a "Huh? -- Since when
> ignoring exit code is an improvement?" reaction.  If this push
> is expected to error out, then wouldn't you want to make sure it
> errors out as expected?  If the problem is that the exit status
> is unreliable, maybe we need to make it reliable instead?

Well, it is kind of undefined. git push just updated some remote
references and failed on the others. It has had some failures, so it
returns non-0. And as I said, it really is not about the operation,
but about if the tracking and remote branches are set as we want them.