From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:38:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv6 16/16] Introduce portable_unset and use it to ensure proper && chaining
Message-ID: <20101004113838.GF4738@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <7vy6ae8kdi.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Hmm, the pros and cons between allowing test_might_fail on normal commands
> vs introducing cmd_might_fail are questionable, though.  I cannot think of
> a case where we would want to tolerate death by signal or segv on non git
> commands

Okay, makes sense.  I would be happier if exit statuses 129 and 129-256
were disallowed by test_must_fail, too, but that does not make it any
less useful for cases like "test_might_fail grep needle haystack >result".
And it is better to avoid introducing yet another command to learn.