From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:30:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce receive.denyDeletes
Message-ID: <20081031143022.GQ14786@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v63n99omx.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Jan Krüger" <jk@jk.gs> writes:
> 
> > Can I then delete the branch afterwards without lots of juggling (in
> > case the test fails due to a random other reason that the branch
> > accidentally getting deleted by receive-pack)? I'd expect I'd have to
> > save the exit code to a temporary variable and that's just as ugly.

If you want to delete the branch after the test is done, do it
outside of the test_expect_success's 3rd argument.  Then it will
run the branch deletion whether or not the test was successful.
 
> Although I agree that your attempt to allow the test continue even when
> this test fails is a very good practice, I personally do not find the
> alternative you mention ugly at all.  I actually find that "return 1"
> uglier because it feels like it knows too much about how
> test_expect_success is implemented.

Yea, I also found the "return 1" to be horribly difficult to read, and
knowing far too much about the test suite.

-- 
Shawn.