From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:16:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] More test cases for sanitized path names
Message-ID: <20080201091618.GA32734@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <7vabmlb0y0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 2008-01-31 23:17:11 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I'd like to make the _first_ patch after 1.5.4 to be a fix-up for
> tests that misuse test_expect_failure. After that, we can use
> test_expect_failure to mark tests that ought to pass but don't
> because of bugs in the commands.

This is precisely what StGit's test suite does, and it has a very nice
property (beyond looking tidy): it's possible to first commit a new
(failing) test, and then commit a fix for the bug that made the test
fail, and have the test suite pass at every step.

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle